Ridiculous and Rude Parents, Unappreciative Brats

Yesterday was Meet-the-Parent Day.

It's hard to believe that such rude and disrespectful parents exist, and it's a double shock when their kids are really nice kids. How could they have such parents?

One stupid mother actually kept stressing on the fact that 'If you are a GOOD teacher, you would ...'

She so GOOD. Come and teach lah!

If she's a GOOD mother, her kid wouldn't be scoring in the 50's range.
If she's a GOOD mother, she wouldn't insult her kids' teachers in front of them.
If she's a GOOD mother, she wouldn't enrol the kids into a neighbourhood school in the first place.
If she's a GOOD mother, she would model GOOD behaviour and GOOD words for her kids.

From my experience, usually kids with parents who despise teachers and make life difficult for teachers don't do well. Reason is simple: the kids no longer have respect for their teachers. Whatever the teacher teaches, it doesn't register because the kids have doubts about their teacher's capability.

If that's not stupidity, I don't know what is.

An idiotic father kept asking stupid questions ie. 'What is my son's compo mark?' when it's supposed to be confidential and I didn't have my marksheet with me, or 'P3's total mark is 300. How about P4, 5 and 6?'

I don't teach P4, 5 and 6, so I DON'T KNOW, ok?

And his retort? "Everything you also don't know don't know."

Then he said,"All SA papers are shared by 5 schools."

I said,"No."

He said,"You DON'T KNOW ah? How many years have you been in this school?"

I maintained that not all SA papers are cluster papers.

Then I decided to ask him to leave. I said with a straight face,"Other parents are waiting."

He ignored what I said and continued with his blabbering.

Then, about 30 minutes later, he said,"I need to work. I go first." meaning: I don't want to talk to you ok, not you don't want to talk to me.

If that's not an idiot, I don't know what is.

And he said,"Help my son to improve his English huh."

After insulting me for so long? Crazy.

Such parents only make teachers hate their kids.

Just because I'm here to teach doesn't mean that you're entitled to heap insults and shit on me. You want to throw shit at me, see who suffers in the end lah.

It's parents like these that make you feel that whatever you've done for the kids are in vain and it makes you feel STUPID and IDIOTIC to put in so much effort for the kids, when the parents don't even appreciate you. And not only do they not appreciate you, they let you eat shit.

I've been so STUPID. I haven't taken an MC ever since I came back to work. Even when I needed to take my own kids to the doc, I made sure it's a day that I spend the least with the students so that I don't waste my periods. Isn't that really IDIOTIC?

And the kids don't even appreciate what you've done for them. The setting up and constant updating of the blog is nothing to them. It's like I SHOULD do it.

When I took them to the computer lab to do a survey on teachers, they told me they clicked on "Strongly disagree" for "I hope my teacher will teach me next year." and other things about the teacher being fair, being motivating, teaching moral values.

I told them I don't even care or am interested in whether they like me or not.

It's true that I'm not doing all these to make them like me, but it's hard not to feel disappointed when you've been nice to a bunch of unappreciative kids.

They procrastinate on the things you ask them to do, but do everything properly for their Mother Tongue teacher who is harsh and fierce to them.

From today onwards, I'm not going to be gentle and nice towards them. I'll revert to my old fierce and unfriendly 'self' so that they all do my bidding. I've come to realise that these kids are no different from a class whose half of the kids fail - their attitude I mean.