A few netizens shared some of the horror stories that they faced as teachers when dealing with unruly and self-entitled parents.
The self-entitled one
My friend is a teacher at an atas kindergarten. Because of covid she now stands outside to take the kids temperature before going in.
There’s this woman that drops off her son in a bmw. But won’t come out and open the car door for him. Neither will she let him open it himself.
Because she wants my friend – the teacher, to do it. My friend refused to, and the woman legit sat in her car for 10 minutes until she couldn’t take it anymore. She came out and scolded my friend and complained to the kindergarten. They told her the teachers are not chauffeurs lol
The no-boundaries one
Was a contract teacher in 2012 in a primary school. I’m so glad I did not go into NIE. Anyway it’s a good thing I didn’t because I couldn’t see myself being a teacher.
One parent called my personal number at night asking whether her son needed to bring the textbook the next day. She didn’t want him to carry a heavy bag. I asked how she got hold of my personal number and please don’t call me at night except for emergencies. She proceeded to tell me as a teacher it’s my job to care for the students and especially so for her son because he’s mildly autistic. He deserves more attention than the other students.
This parent was also one annoying one that requests the school hold monthly meetings with the teachers who taught her son for updates on his progress.
The on-the-dot one
I’m working at a Student Care centre in primary schools now. Some self-entitled parents expect their kid to be punctual on the dot (dismissal 3:30pm means to their hands at 3:30pm)
Some text at 3:27pm where the centre phone will be boomed with messages. So they expect their child to fly down within 3 minutes to the gate.
What they don’t know is, when they send the msg, we forward the msg to the class teacher, then the class teacher will send them down.
Sometimes, the class teacher is preoccupied with something, imagine taking a class. If they wan their child to come on the dot, then message early lah pls.
Some parents also cannot wait, 3minutes pass the dismissal timing shouting at us, “why i message already still not OUT YET!!!!!!!”
Omg parents can come late but expect us to get the kid ready on time