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This is borderline unhinged. The way you talk makes me feel like you are definitely leaving some part of this story out.
Nope, I'm in Florida, and you have to stay on top of shit. His Kindergarten teacher was physically abusing students, and then literally refused to give him his medicine when the nurse came calling. I wrote an email to the principal, asking which medical school she graduated from, since she felt qualified to override his pediatricians orders. She was on maternity leave the next day, and never returned. I wasnt the first complaint.
His second grade teacher was a Jehovah Witness, and a friend of the kindergarten teacher, and specifically requested my son for her class. She handpicked kids for her class, and put them all at tables, with a Jehovah Witness kid at each table to be the leader. The kid at my son's table told him every day that he was a sinner, and was going to Hell, a concept we never discussed with our son. He was switched to a different class, at my demand. They're lucky I didn't sue them.
He got stabbed in the leg by a pencil in 4th grade, and taken to the ER in an ambulance, because the classroom was always in turmoil because the teacher was always on his laptop, betting on sports. He was switched to a new classroom (I didn't even have to ask, the principal just did it), and that teacher was gone at the end of the year.
That was just elementary school. Tell me again how it's ALL my fault.
My parents are lesbians, your second paragraph was my entire 12 years of school. My parents still never threatened anybody. You’re only proving my point.
I don't think your parents not intervening necessarily reflects badly upon them; I can only imagine being parents of a sapphic nature comes with its share of difficulties, much as I imagine being the child of such parents would make you a target to teachers and schoolmates alike. It's quite understandable that they should not want to add the burden of being the "confrontational" parents, both to you and to themselves.
Still, it is odd to denounce a parent standing up for their child as "threatening". I agree that the other person's initial comment came off as possibly being the rantings of a deranged helicopter parent. However, if their second comment, to which you replied, is to be believed, I find their objections to be just and right.
I have many friends who teach as their trade; I've no doubt that the plight of educators at the hand of undignant parents is more oft than not of a ridiculous nature; parents being very protective of their offspring. Yet we must not perceive this tendency as eternally true, as yet some are amongst the educators who should abuse the trust of old between master and pupil.
(Sorry I'm stoned and have been reading a lot of Tolkien recently; so I started replying, a bit subconsciously, in his style. I put too much into it to delete it, so please forgive my indulgent follies)
I didn’t say my parents didn’t intervene, I said they didn’t make threats. And I’m not denouncing a parent standing up for their child as threatening, I’m denouncing the person I replied to as specifically being threatening. Because I have the impression of them that you do from their first comment, I have a hard time not believing their second isn’t exaggeration. Or the very least not leaving out many of the details. As my grandma used to say there are two sides to every story. I also have family and friends who teach for a living, and I’ve heard stories like this from both sides.
Yes, I’m sure there are some bad teachers out there. But I don’t feel that means we should all stoop to the level of threatening public servants and as the other person said refusing to be polite. Especially given that most of these teachers are being asked to teach sometimes as many as twice the number of students that they can reasonably be expected to pay attention to just for starters. Not to mention how many of them are paying for school supplies out of their pocket.
This person’s approach is the equivalent of percussive maintenance on a broken system, very rarely effective in the long-term.