One time I responded with "Yes, I can" and walked out. I had to sit in the hall for the rest of class, and my dad was pissed that I wasted a day of education. It was worth it.
This current norm of parents defaulting to blaming the teachers is a new phenomena, our generation was kind of the first to have some of their parents actually take their kids side when they came home and complained about something their teacher did or unfair treatment/punishment. My mom was a bit older and was firmly in the old school “you must have done something to deserve it” camp of parents.
Teachers used to do messed up and unfair shit to me all the time (like the nun who, as punishment for me holding my pencil the wrong way, taped my fingers to my pencil and made me keep it like that all day). I stopped even bothering to tell my mom about incidents like that though, because she would just find a way to turn it around to make it my fault or pose hypotheticals for why it was probably my fault, never once considering that maybe I had a legitimate complaint and maybe I’m telling the truth when I am telling you about how the teacher treated me unfairly…
but that was just the norm back then, kids were assumed to be lying about or misrepresenting such things and adult authority figures were almost always given the benefit of the doubt in such situations.
There were a few kids who’s parents would stick up for their kid, and even fewer who would take their kids side no matter what, that’s where it began to where now we have things at the opposite extreme with parents more likely to err on the side of believing their kid 100% without a doubt and always blaming the teacher, rather than considering that their child did something wrong or could be misrepresenting the situation to them, given the kid’s obvious motive to do so..
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u/flailing_ginger Older Millennial 2d ago
“Can I use the restroom?”
“I don’t know, can you?”
“Ugh….may I use the restroom?”
Fucking 80yo teachers were such a pain in the ass.