THIS. My least favorite part of teaching was the parents. I can’t give EVERY kid the lead role in the school play. And, your kid has to actually show up to class occasionally to get a part. No, I’m not a racist for not casting your daughter as the princess, your daughter is NEVER HERE.

my mom is the directed of Admissions and Records at our local community college... and you’d be surprised how often she (and her staff) get calls from parents who scream at them “If I’m paying for my kids’ education, you damned well better give me whatever info I want on them...” uh, doesn’t work that way... then they…

JE, can I just say that the way you wrote this article gave me life. Every paragraph revealed something crazier than the last. The slow-drip of crazy was exactly what I was fiending when I came looking for batshit local news.

A close friend of mine is a tenth grade teacher and had to defend herself against parent complaints that she was “not responsive” when she wasn’t answering emails that were sent after ten at night until the next morning. Fortunately, the school backed her play and said that teachers were not on call 24 hours a day,…

Yeah, my fiance and I are going through premarital counseling, one of the things the pastor said was “if you focus more on your children instead of your partner, you’ll end up with entititled children and a weak marriage.” http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

I felt the same way, taught HS seven years and loved the teaching part, but kinda always wondered if we all secretly hated parents or if that was just me. And good god can they talk for a long time. My favorites were always the, “can you just call me and let me know when s/he has homework?” Uh, that’ll be a negative,…

I practice in a town that was rated #1 small town to live in or some shit by money magazine and cnn a couple years ago and no one can shut up about it- outside of Boston. I love my families and I do well with them bc I’m very direct and will tell them to get their heads out of their asses (only had a few not want to…

Congratulations to South Asians for graduating into the White Person Pretending To Be A Darkie While Committing A Crime category. They’re real secondhand American citizens now.

As I recall, he used his neighbor’s name (and some facsimile of his accent), so it was an attempt at a specific south Asian accent. He also did it at a hotel near his office, using a public phone, where he was caught on video. He was sanctioned, wife was disbarred. Both went to better law schools than I did, so I took…

For fuck’s sake, parents: GET. A. HOBBY. I get feeling all Mama/Papa bear if you think your child’s been insulted but this kind of dialing up to 11? Over thinking somebody called your child slow? This...this is no good. Enjoy your garnisheed wages and lifetime of humiliating Google results.

Don’t get me wrong. The PTA was amazing. (I’m looking at you, teachers lounge cookies!) But the PTA is also like a beacon for the Problem Parents. It’s the perfect arena to act out their fantasies of tyranny.

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“We started to suspect that the accent was... less than genuine when he hung up by saying ‘Thank you! Come again!’”

I lived in Irvine for awhile, this story is so Irvine it makes me glad I got the fuck outta there. I don't care how great their public schools are, I am not going back.

He must be, otherwise wht would they be so touchy about it.

His parents are.

As having been born and raised in Orange County, I fucking love this so much. I hated most of the PTA moms growing up and I love to think they were plotting some Orphan Black style shiz behind the scenes.

I like the “south Asian” accent descriptor the best. It’s ridiculously broad, yet somehow oddly specific.

Peaked in high school.

I’ve been following this story in local papers for a while and was surprised it didn’t get national media attention until now because its so twisted and insane. The fact that such an innocent comment set off such chaos for this woman is ridiculous.