Parents. . .

I have had some experience dealing with difficult parents. Those who think their child is always right no matter what. I was thinking everything was fine, that the parents in my class are just as great as my students. I have decided it isn't so. I just took time on my Sunday night to check my school email and I had two emails from two separate parents. One the child is always full of drama and the mom and I are working through it and talking before it gets out of hand. The other, I think the parents think I don't like their child. When in fact that child has won me over. The student isn't doing so great right now, they have been sick a couple of times this quarter, which is most of my class, and is missing work because of it. This child is working so hard not to be unprepared. There hasn't been any alarm, because they haven't really been unprepared. Then report cards come out (midterms about two week late, that is my fault) and he is missing work and the parents freak and hope that is will be taken care of. Or what? You go to my principal and tell him I am failing your child and I can look at the principal and tell him the child has been absent a couple of weeks this quarter. It hurts the child to be absent. I also don't sit and hold the student's hands when they need to turn stuff in. I have 25 people to look after, I don't know every single assignment that hasn't been turned in. I guess I could have saved myself all the heartache and not required signatures from the parents on the progress reports. But then I don't get the pressure from parents to get stuff turned in.
I have to constantly remind myself, I signed up for this. I was the one who chose to be a teacher. But, I signed up so I could be with the kids teaching them. Not so I could deal with parents.