Parent Teacher Conference

[@wootuser]

“Every teacher has had this conversation at least once!” That’s an understatement. I think every teacher has parts of this conversation everyday.

[@hellohi821]

As a teacher, I found this video to be both amusing and eerie at the same time! Most parents I meet are supportive, but once in a while, a parent like this turns up, and it can get as ugly as the conference in this video. The constant avoidance of responsibility shown by the parent is quite comical, but there really are some parents who are like that. To whoever posted this video: You made my day!

[@64jmcintosh]

Love this! I've been a teacher for 9 yrs and I've heard it all ha ha

[@tranquil31]

lol

[@Tea_Noire]

Why does Timmy need extra tutoring if he's a super genius lmao

[@muzckl1]

I am laughing so hard that I'm falling off of my chair! I have had this parent MANY times!

[@newjen2]

"Y-O-U don't understand." That's classic: yeah, like this experienced teacher doesn't understand, hasn't heard one thousand times, every excuse this flighty mom is throwing at her. And she's accepting it calmly and graciously. God bless the teachers of the world, and the parents who truly teach their children to be accountable!

[@katherinec2759]

"He told me you pick on him because he doesn't do his homework." Congratulations, you just figured out how to solve the problem! (Part of it, anyways.)

[@katherinec2759]

+Katherine S Also, make up your mind, is he a bored genius or is his work too hard?

[@sptthsptth9822]

Katherine S are you gonna burn the cross in your profile pic

[@samster5677]

Modern parents in a nutshell.

[@memegodjodox4854]

Yep

[@nursegrace7492]

00:40 "Timmy told me you pick on him because he doesn't turn in his homework." (!)

[@Moribus_Artibus]

This is basically holding up a mirror at society thank you!

[@lordzekrom2]

Too many times is this true, and teachers take the fall too many times.

[@lindafajardo5982]

This sounds like a phone call I just had with a parent!! PERFECT!! Thank you for being the "fly on the wall"! I guess I'm not crazy after all!! :)

[@missdesireindependance5194]

I wish that were true. lol. I know parents can be a challenge. Kudos to all teachers.

[@scotteckers]

"he rides horses competitively!"

[@jeffreyestahl]

One of the reasons I used to keep meticulous records of what went on in my classroom was that 6 months into any school year, there was always some parent who complained to the principal that something you'd supposedly said in the first week of school had so traumatized their child that the child didn't get the straight As they'd deserved. Thus, they wanted you fired, and their child's grades for the entire year be reevaluated to be more in line with expectations.

[@fight2flyphoto]

This video was played this morning for our staff meeting. Conferences are coming up in a few weeks and this was a great ice breaker. Great video! Too funny!

[@jmjo616]

Your videos are frighteningly realistic. Fortunately, I am now retired from a long teaching career.

[@mimixd355]

"its ur fault that hes failing" "your making him learn too much"

[@debfoshager3418]

"I'm going to tell them how you pick on Timmy and make him learn too much you'll never work as a teacher again"

[@speechmom]

I was just in a meeting with this mom yesterday! So funny except for the fact that it is so true! I've shared it with my staff and they all laughed so hard!

[@chocolateandbooks]

lol, this is just too true. As a teacher, I can say that most of us have had this type of parent/teacher conference at least once if not MORE than once.

[@crazyinga]

After 20 years, I've heard this. Over and over and over.....

[@vic5828]

A lot of truth to your words. Fortunately I have had many economically challenged students who really went the mile (not always with parent help) and made something out of their life. On the other side of the coin, I have had those who were handed it all because they were "well off" who didn't amount to anything and at least one is sitting in the state prison right now doing 25 to life.

[@obijuan80]

"you'll never teach again!" "i wish that were true." i wish for the same thing everyday.....

[@katelyndanger]

OMG!!! I've had this parent! Glad to know this happens to others...I wish I could record conferences so they could hear this played back! LOL

[@LiviaShelford]

Hysterically funny and incredibly true. The only thing missing is the part where the parent says you should call me everyday to report how my child is doing, send special work home for my child to do and allow him to make up all missing homeworks and retake all failed tests.

[@riverdaughter3]

As a parent, I've been on the other end of this. There was a lot of pressure on us to get with the program while all evidence that the kid was supersmart was ignored with educator eye-rolls. Until 8th grade when I had the kid take the SAT and she scored over 1900 with a 740 on the writing section. This year, she skipped 3 years of French and no one is arguing with me anymore. But for 9 years, it was sheer torture. It happens rarely but sometimes teachers are just wrong.

[@ItalyRose810]

"I have the clipping in my purse if you want to see it..." LOL!

[@GenXorcist1976]

OH... MY.... GOD. I have never seen anything more accurate in all my life! Thank you to whomever created/posted this... we teachers are CONSTANTLY badgered like this. Oh yeah, and we certainly aren't getting paid to withstand this abuse. BRILLIANT video!

[@perryeising]

At least the parent showed up to the conference. At our parent/ teacher conferences last month, I had ONE parent out of over 100 show up!

[@jubilantsleep]

My BFF is a teacher. She would love this video! Thanks for sharing!

[@ShikemaMoniqueClark]

This is freaking hilarious because there's one parent just like this every year! No matter what you say or try to suggest, they say the opposite.

[@dalekprawn]

Oh, I can't believe this--I HAVE had this exact discussion THIS YEAR!!! By a parent who stood me up for 3 conferences and said all this on the phone!!! Way too realistic!

[@eltee115]

You should write more of these - you definitely have a talent for it

[@LizzyLovesDucks]

Timmy's mom sounds like a *excuse my french* soccermom!

[@lexieberger1]

I have heard all of these. I even had a parent tell me to send her my lesson plans 2 weeks in advance of teaching the lesson for her approval. Nothing surprises me anymore.

[@YouWastesTube]

I LOVE the ending...LMAO

[@trishfitzpatrick2066]

Our local school wanted me to stop homeschooling our sons. They asked for a meeting. I got a lot of Edu-speak and Psycho-babble. So I took their words, chopped them up, and made brand new words. I spoke with pleasant confidence. Surprise! They took my new words and used them. I could barely keep from laughing. It went on for quite a while but I did get bored spoofing them. Oh, and I went on teaching my own. They always tested in the high ninetieth percentile. Parents of the world, UNITE!

[@MathNerdGamer]

@parabolola This is why I'll be an instructor at the college or university level. Any parental "intervention" can be whisked away with a simple "I'm not allowed to speak about a student's confidential grades, they are between my student and myself".

[@jee1201]

Hilarious....I love mom's eye rolling. No worries teach...if you're good, you'll be excessed!

[@aceclef]

Wow chelsemo.. I can cut and paste too. I cant tell you how many times Ive had this conference or a variation there of.

[@doublenickelzeta]

One of my seniors said today that he missed a lot of school last year. Just wouldn't come if he didn't feel like it. I asked him if his mother ever asked for a report card and he said, "No." I told him that his mother failed as a parent. If he didn't produce a report card, it was HER job to call the school & arrange to GET one. He agreed with me. They want to grade schools? I say, I'll believe in grading schools when we grade the homes the students come from!

[@dgmisal1979]

That's awesome... seen this several times in my own experience.

[@Augustrose201]

Great examples of sad but truth situations we deal with all the time.

[@wwdiner]

You'll never work as a teacher again... I wish that were true. I loved this! Nice work

[@A64thProduction]

Awesome! the mother is great! she needs to go back to school too!!! I love her hand gestures!

[@viall4diabetes]

As a retired teacher this was like deja vu. I had one mother call me at home two weeks after school ended (yep, I gave out my number) and ask, "Can MIke still pass history?" I asked if she had seen his grades all year--F's in every class. She said no, she had never seen a grade card. I wanted to ask, "Do you think the fact Mike missed 106 days hurt?" I was polite and just told her it was too late to help.

[@steffery01]

Ha ha ha ha haaaa!!! I once got a PRESCRIPTION for recess. No joke, I still have it stapled above my desk.

[@jxenvyx]

Teachers need to be appreciated more. Sure some of them dont deserve to be called a teacher but most of them are the people that teach us what we need to know for the careers we want, for the rest of our lives. They should be paid more than what they get because they are the people who taught cardiologist, policemen, astronomers, presidents, doctors, etc. Everyone had to get an education from somewhere which means they all had a teacher at one point.

[@dramaticme1]

:) This teacher sure handled all of this well. I'm impressed.

[@jessbo58]

I am having a deja vu moment! Crazy parents like this are all TOO COMMON!

[@winter32842]

I have a friend that is teacher. Even though it is true that some parents are like that but it is also true that some parents give gifts to teachers. The family of one of her student owns a liquor store, so my friend gets liquor for free (they even mail them to her even though she does not request them), gets discount on airplane fares since one of the parents work for a major airline.

[@Thecrafty1too]

OMG! Did they eves drop in my parent conferences????? Sadly, this is a very REAL example of parent conferences in schools today. Teachers hands are tied behind their backs. Administration throws Standardized Test scores in our faces, but fail to undertand that this is the reason. Thank you for this authentic characterization.

[@funmi36]

i talk to this parent several times a year.

[@marciapan2]

Sad, but true, this can happen. The teacher did the right thing by staying calm and offering numerous options.

[@Absynthe12]

I've had Timmy as a student over and over!

[@gamesmasher1489]

how the mother is describing Timmy at home and the teacher at school is how I am in real life

[@WillyWheel47]

She knows how to do makeup look at that eyeliner

[@imaninja595]

My 6th grade teacher Mr.Tieu put this video for the class and I couldn't stop laughinh because she sounds like someone who can voice over a meme video and my teacher Mr.Tieu went to my desk and asked me if i was okay

[@lolomooney621]

THIS is why I retired! Seriously, I saw this problem escalate over the years. That parent sees herself as "supporting" her son. Enabling has been confused for supporting. I hope she is happy because she may find herself supporting him forever.

[@etdippolito]

I have one of these students(or parents) every year! Anyone who doesn't like this video IS one of these parents!

[@Lantzl24]

It's amazing what parents are coming up with these days. I think it gets harder every year!

[@sissyrayself7508]

as a teacher in public education who so happened to raise two kids to happy, healthy, functional adults, I must say I side with the parents more often than my fellow teachers do. All they can do is judge, gissip, and complain. I. quitting after 14 years as a public educators to start a private home school cooperative and support company. Parents need to be backed up and helped, not judged and ridiculed. Parents are the first and most important teachers, all we school teachers are are indoctrination tools for the feds. and I've had it. I'm one of the few educators on the parents side. We are going. to take education out if the hands of the feds and put it back into the parents hands

[@krystlenall1722]

I find it hard to believe that you're a teacher with grammar like that.

[@blaineash]

This is 10 years old but still accurate to entitled parents

[@xmxbwn]

This was hilarious!

[@tavizcha]

Me too!! I almost die by really impossible laugh!!

[@katsura1982]

"You don't understand...Timmy plays select soccer, he's good...he's really really good. He had his picture in the paper."

[@TheStephaniewerner]

This is gold. XD

[@MrWilliamsworld]

I didn't know that my last conference had been recorded! WOW! The saddest thing is that teachers get this every day! I loved the BS Bingo words tossed in there.

[@thenotoriousadin]

you have chosen microsoft sam as the default computer voice.

[@kikiteka]

This is so depressing, because it is so spot on.

[@Subaroozz]

Cracked up at the punchline at the end.

[@DrewPicklesTheDark]

LOL my name is Tim and my mother was always going to these! Although it wasn't quite like this :P

[@santoshkaur06]

Too Funny!! You forgot.....the threat of being sued!!

[@Waxer3929]

Yep, as a prospective teacher this is just one of the many thing's I will have to deal with. I'm really not looking forward to moments like these although I am sure that when I do get there, I will know what to say and when to say it. I really enjoyed this, it's pretty much spot-on to how people communicate during parent-teacher conferences. The only thing that it lacks, which I was told teachers should have, is a witness or possibly a lawyer, as superfluous as it may sound.

[@OnyxDragon01]

My mom and I got pretty much the same treatment when she decided on homeschooling me. Except it was my dad's side of the family that gave us this BS. This was 3 years ago. Now the entire school system in my town is going to hell. One school closed down, the local high school is full of gangs, and the other local high school is undergoing repairs after the roof got blown off during a storm. Now my dad's folks have enrolled my cousin in a private school, wishing they had homeschooled. smh

[@Mimiof123]

OMG! I think I had Timmy in my kindergarten class! LOL!!!!!

[@trishfitzpatrick2066]

"If her refuses...?" Say no more.

[@RaygunShaun]

This is exactly how all parent-teacher conferences are.

[@Audiodump]

i wish my kids would had have such dilligent teachers... my experience is the exact reverse of this video!

[@lauriedunlap]

Oh dear, so true, so true, so often, so often. It's a wonder that there are teachers left.

[@HeavenlyValo]

Yes. It's funny. It's nice to know other people have the same struggles you do.

[@robertsewellca]

What a great movie! I've been there a few times and am glad to be retired! As they say in that old song, "The kids are all right." The problems come with the parents.

[@parabolola]

For a while I thought of being a teacher. I told one of my friends and she thought that was a ridiculous idea simply because I would not be able to handle parent-teacher conferences because I would flat-out tell someone that they are a horrible parent who is ruining their child's life and would be fired. I was kind of insulted because I thought I could handle myself better, but after seeing this video I think my friend is right. I'd be dropping some truth bombs on that mom.

[@BamBamLivesHere]

Lol i love that vid so much the best line is "no ur liein

[@James-fh2ez]

Any one see the cartoon where the "administrator" & student are "smokin'" before the parent/teacher confer., and then when waiting for parent(s) One says to the other..."COME ON WE CAN DO THIS"!!!

[@anntiernan]

Timmy is soooooooo special.

[@alisheadlam2765]

The video shows just how far apart teachers and parents can be. Unless there is a meeting of the minds the child will continue to suffer. It's time for someone to mediate, but with this parent even that might not work.

[@Chebab-Chebab]

Parents sometimes try this on me. It doesn't work.

[@wilishascaife9772]

Certainly there are parents who do this BUT I would like to see the one that shows the teacher who labels kids, talks about them terribly in the lounge, doesn't care enough to get to know kids and families, creates expectations for families based on the "teacher's perspective" only, and then judges parents as "bad," "uncaring," or "uninvolved" based on that standard (u no these teachers exist)! There is much work to be done to get to "family-teacher CONNECTIONS!" Much work needed on BOTH sides!

[@ericfleischer1]

That is hilarious! Great job....

[@firepaw5678]

Why is it always Timmy?!

[@jeffluther7829]

@NyaNyaJP I spent seven years teaching across Asia. Though obviously not every country in Asia is identical, my experiences were that it's really not much different. Parents might complain about different things, and they tend to psychologically abuse their kids more and teachers less, but in the end it's pretty much the same experience.

[@anticorncob6]

The child is a genius yet needs all this extra help?!

[@ConnanMcElvogue]

This is terribly funny and sad at the same time. I, too, have heard all of this before.

[@CHistrue]

This is real. Believe me, I know.

[@Nikolaii99]

Sounds like a really great story... i would love to hear more. What medication did you take for what diagnosis/symptoms ? Btw, i love Math! In high school, i derived an non-exponential equation to approximate mortgage... I only wish i could derive the true, exact exponential form... Looking it up is boring... i want to understand it's derivation and where it comes from :(

[@Debofallon]

OMG!!!! I had this woman's son last year - AND the very same conversation!!! Oh wait - it was the year before that, and the year before that, and.... What's sad is that the parents who are like this will never acknowledge or accept any responsibility ever. I wish we could hold parents accountable to the same standard as teachers. I've always said there needs to be an IQ test passed before people can breed.....

[@UnkleRonnie]

"RACIST SUPERHERO" is the funniest xtranormal video on KZbin!!

[@chadfilley]

Being a teacher...I can guarantee this was created by a teacher!

[@KidsLearnHTML]

The 131 down votes were from moms...

[@nonsuke8088]

Trueee

[@Wargamer204]

+b richardson Yup, and all are named Cleopatra. They're all in DeNile!!!

[@DeathToZepeda]

no this animation is cancer thats why

[@annamelanie5151]

Yes, lazy ignorant moms for sure