Teachers Reveal The Most Intense Encounters They’ve Had With Students’ Parents

Being a teacher is never an easy job. You’re responsible for corralling small children who, more often than not, are bursting with energy (yes, that really was a Lego that just went flying by your face), all while trying to help them live up to their fullest potential. Oh, and then you have the parents. It’s natural to be concerned about your child’s education, but any teacher knows that parent encounters can get a bit intense.

From parents who believe their kid can do no wrong, to those who harass their child’s teacher on social media (which is now apparently a “thing” in this day and age), it takes a lot of passion, dedication, and incredibly thick skin to be a teacher. If you thought your experiences in the classroom were crazy, you haven’t seen anything yet. These teachers share their craziest parent encounters, some of which will render your jaw flat on the floor…

Coloring In The Lines

I was a Kindergarten teacher and had a lot of crazy experiences during parent teacher conference week, but this one has to be the best (and worst). A father asked me what I was doing to prepare his 5-year-old son for the SATs. At first I thought he was joking and kind of laughed it off before I realized that he was dead serious.

For context, kids don’t take the SATs until high school. I was just focused on getting the son to stop picking his nose and spell his own name correctly. But I tried to come up with a serious answer and told the father that we’ve been coloring a lot in art class, and that this should help develop his dexterity for filling in the bubbles on a scantron. Reddit user: BourreauDeTravail

Time Out Talk

Mom never gives her son time outs. Kid is an absolute terror and has no friends in class. I start giving him time outs when he tries to break the rules. Mom questions me when he starts to simmer down at home. I explain that I make him sit out for a few minutes during play time until he can explain why what he did is wrong and relaxes.

I also would take his Nilla Wafers that were provided by the school when he was really acting up. No desserts for unruly kids! The woman straight up tried to get me fired. Screamed at my boss in front of my students, scaring them. Said I was taking away his autonomy and stifling his creativity. Well, I don’t listen to her and continue to discipline the kid.

He starts behaving really well, is enjoying class, and loves to talk about what I said he was doing well on. Two weeks later, guess who comes over and asks me for tips on giving time outs? Reddit user: [redacted]

Smothered By Mother

I was a TA for freshman level chemistry at a large, well-known university. I had a parent call me repeatedly on my personal cell phone wanting to know why her daughter got an A- on some random insignificant lab assignment. I told her that university policy did not allow for discussion of grades with anyone but the student. Think she let it go? Nope.

This woman actually called the head of the department to complain that I was discriminating against her and her daughter, and that I was blackmailing her daughter into not speaking to her. I felt bad for the daughter, as she was a very smart, polite, and friendly person. Just controlled by the mother. Reddit user: feykitty

The Legend Of K’s Mom

I’ve heard many stories about this one parent from other teachers in my school, as they’ve said she’s just seriously crazy and possessive about her kid. We’ll call her son “K.” One of my favorite stories goes like this: another teacher was out and about at the pharmacy and saw K with his mother. K greeted the teacher and said, “Hi Ms. Katie!”

And the teacher went on to say hello and ask if they were there because he was sick. K’s mom started to scream out in this public place “Help! This lady is trying to take my kid!” And carried on while the teacher walked away as fast as she could because she was both embarrassed and confused. K is for crazy, it seems. Also had a parent once call the principal and tell her that a teacher had “barred the door” and wouldn’t let their student out to go to the principal. Reddit user: UnicornGirl24

Strange Priorities

I teach fifth grade. Evidently a parent came to my principal recently because when we group the fourth graders into class, she wants her daughter in any class but mine. Under no circumstances is her kid to be placed with me. I was extremely confused, and also a little offended, because I’m a great teacher.

I had never even met this woman in my life, so what reason could she possibly have to not want me to teach her daughter? I eventually found out, and it’s probably more ridiculous than you thought. The reasoning behind it was that I have a large bust, which will hurt her 10-year-old daughter’s self-esteem. Reddit user: emilyamI

A Bit Of Miscommunication

Had a parent accuse the school of discriminating against his son because his son spoke mostly Russian and that’s why his son was having issues at school. As you can imagine, that definitely wasn’t the case at all. I speak fluent Russian and helped translate for their son. His son was having issues because he kept pushing kids and hitting them.

Of course, whenever you try to tell a parent that their kid is violent or causing issues within the classroom, they refuse to believe it and put all the blame on you. One of the joys of being a teacher, I suppose. I’ve had a lot of trouble-makers in my class throughout the years, but this kid was one of the worst. Reddit user: [redacted]

Tick Tock

My mom is a teacher, and I was in her class at the time. She had a student who constantly messed with her watch, making it beep like crazy, so my mom asked her to stop or not wear the watch. The student’s mom came in after school practically yelling that it was a gift from her grandmother who had died.

My mom said she was sorry but it was a distraction, and the girl needed to either stop wearing the watch or just make it stop beeping. Otherwise, she would be in trouble. The girl’s mother replied with, “No, she told me it wasn’t beeping! You just think it’s ugly and don’t want her to wear it!” Yeah, totally. Reddit user: MyUsernameisReallyOk

Staring Contest

You know all those parents who email you constantly about their kid’s grades or just pester you constantly trying to talk to you? I had the opposite problem. I once had a parent teacher conference where the parent came in and never spoke a word to me. She never said hi or anything, just came in, sat across from me, and stared right into my eyes the entire time.

It was so creepy. You would think it was actually a robot dressed up as a parent, designed by the kid to try and fool you like on TV, but nah. The mom just didn’t want to be there. I actually felt really bad for the student, as he was actually a really good kid and his mom should have been really proud of him. Reddit user: ack-pth

Parental Pressure

I was a teacher at a prep school for a while. I had a savant kid that I taught one on one. I was like the only one in the school with rather good math skills. So, I taught him. This kid could do basic pi to the 1000th number by memory. Solve Rubik’s cubes in seconds. Calculus he definitely struggled with.

But he was also 8, foreign, and didn’t speak perfect English. I lived in China at the time. His father would stand in the class with him. He was crazy nice to me. He was super proud of the kid. Yet, if he got a single thing wrong, he would scream at the kid right in front of me. I complained to the administration.

His dad was rather rich, so the school didn’t do anything. So instead, I just always made sure he never got anything wrong. “Yes, that’s how you properly spell Kat.” Probably didn’t help his education but also wasn’t about people emotionally scarring kids. Reddit user: randoreds

No Blue M&M’s

One mom was exceedingly crunchy and homeopathic, but also inconsistent. She would decide her kids were allergic to this food or that food but then magically they wouldn’t be the next day. The kids were allowed to watch The Proposal but not Shrek. Just weird things like that. So, she had a long list of do’s and don’ts for her children’s teachers.

One of these was no blue food dye. Okay, fair enough. My lead teacher was handing out M&M’s to reward the children for writing their letters correctly. She gave Luke, this lady’s son, two brown M&M’s. The next day this lady storms in and gets her husband to come to me about how irresponsible and unhealthy this practice was.

They sent our supervisor a five-paragraph text pushing her to get fired, ranting about how she put Luke in danger, and then condescendingly offering to provide “healthy snacks” since my lead was incapable of doing so and was trying to get Luke to have a reaction. Apparently. A similar response happened when the class was given pudding as a treat. Reddit user: NoNestfortheThicket

Cabin Cleaning Frenzy

Was on a school field trip to a camp in a very famous national park. It was the first day and one of the parents who had volunteered to chaperone was helping their kid move in his stuff like a lot of parents do. Now for context, these cabins get used about 3 maybe 4 weeks out of the year and are then locked up.

These cabins aren’t bad for being cabins used by a bunch of campers and school kids without super high standards. But this mom apparently expected a lot more. She saw the cabin and flipped out. She complained it was filthy and had every single person she could find help clean it up until it was spotless. It was so ridiculous. Reddit user: 10wuebc

Social Media Stalker

I had this kid who was relatively bright but was absolutely clueless and was really terrible at turning assignments in; as a result of that, he was often failing. Well, beginning of the school year, the parent flips out and decides that I must be the worst teacher in the world.

Stalked my social media and LinkedIn profiles and everything. And that was just the beginning. They somehow got ahold of a bunch of other parent emails and started talking badly me, saying how I was brand new and incompetent (it was my 2nd year) and making really specific references to my previous job history.

The principal sat down in a meeting with the parent, and the parent tried to act like none of it had ever happened. Eventually they just pulled their kid from the school; nothing was ever resolved. It was after that incident that I decided to shut down all of my social media. Just not worth the trouble. Reddit user: RokuNervantho

Tuition Troubles

My mother handles payroll and accounting for a small private school. You would not believe how many stories she tells of parents conveniently forgetting things about their kids’ tuitions and just trying to get out of paying. The last one I heard was a woman paying half the tuition and expecting her (separated) husband to cover the rest on some sort of honor system.

She forgot that the rules for the bursary she applied for require it to be calculated from a single person’s income and paid by the same person. She tried to say dad “agreed” to this, so she shouldn’t have to pay the other half. Then there are the people who will miscalculate anywhere they can to make the amount they are to pay lower. And somehow “I didn’t know” is expected to get them forgiven the discrepancy. Reddit user: Deepdoughbeat

Not So Holy Night

The worst was a mother who made a big scene because her daughter had not been chosen as the featured vocalist to sing “O Holy Night” at the school’s Christmas concert. Her daughter didn’t have the appropriate voice or range for the solo. More importantly, she did not want the part and had made this crystal clear to faculty and other students.

Still, her mother insisted on it and threatened to remove her daughter from the school unless school officials met her demand: an ultimatum which resulted in the daughter leaving this private school for another. It was just a really bad situation for all those involved, because the daughter had to leave all her friends and everything behind. Reddit user: Back2Bach

She Was So Close

A long time ago I used to tutor kids in their last two years of high school as well as university kids. One of the kids I tutored was in her last year of high school, about 6 months away from doing final exams and passing. There was no reason for her not to pass; she came to me originally because her parents made her.

Now this girl was the daughter of a famous musician. She fell into the wrong crowd with 6 months to go, the “fight the man, it’ll all work out” crowd, you know the type, and she decided she wanted to leave high school and focus on her own music career. I, and others teaching her, spent many weeks trying to convince her not to drop out of high school.

She could’ve basically done autopilot for a couple of months and graduated. But she was so afraid of final exams, she decided to take the easy route. What was so awful about her parents? They never interjected once. They never tried to convince her either way. They were so absent from her life that at no point did they factor into any decisions. Reddit user: AOLchatparty1999

Crying At The Conference

Parent teacher conference. Father pulls out his phone and looks at it the entire 25 minutes. Could visibly see the kid deflate as his father found his phone more important than his son. I felt awful and got a new understanding for the boy’s bad behavior in class. Another conference: mom fuming with anger, screaming at and belittling her daughter for 25 minutes straight.

Daughter is crying all the time and is completely annihilated. The daughter’s crime? She had done a crossword in class when I asked her to read instead; she generally acted like a normal kid. It was terrible to see these kids feel so defeated by those meant to support and love them. Overall though, I’ve had a lot of really supportive and reasonable parents. Reddit user: [redacted]

Curiosity Kills, I Guess

My husband taught at a private language academy, a group of 7-year-old girls. He was reassigned in the middle of the school year, because a mom found that he made the students “think too hard.” As this was after school education, he never gave any homework; they get enough of that from their day schools (and then some).

The mom was outraged because her daughter was voluntarily researching topics in her free time instead of whatever she wanted her doing. Seriously. She got mad that she would research pandas or the south of France just out of curiosity, because it was “thinking too hard.” Way to have high expectations for her future. Reddit user: loisharkins2

Parents’ Night Fight

On parents evening, I’m sat there; this couple’s daughter isn’t stupid by any means, but she’s very lazy and in lower ability sets as a result. I go through all the stuff with her, how she’s performing, targets, etc. Anyway, after all this, I finish with “Any questions?” Mum immediately comes out with, “So just tell us, is she smart enough for university?”

First of all…she’s literally 12. Then the dad comes out with, “That’s a stupid bloody question, I told you not to ask him that!” and they start having this big fight right there in the hall, onlookers and everything, and I’m just sitting there with an uncomfortable smile on my face, as I don’t know what to do. Reddit user: radiatron

It’s About Respect, Man

I was a teacher who also coached a soccer team for 6- and 7-year-olds. One kid spent most of the practice being disruptive and decided she hated me. Her behavior escalated from verbal disruption to physical; she would hit, kick, and bite me but only when her parents weren’t looking. As soon as they turned their heads, she turned into a monster.

I understand that she was a child, but it was getting out of hand for me and all the other kids. When I brought it up to the dad and asked him to control his daughter, or just what kind of things I could do to get her to stop, his response was, “Well she just doesn’t respect you. I don’t know what to tell you other than earn her respect.” Reddit user: Tacosplusmeequals

Helicopter Parenting

Unfortunately, this is a regular occurrence. I used to teach elementary, but now teach middle school to the children of major helicopter parents. I have students whose parents check our online grade book and daily web pages 8-10 times daily and email their student’s teachers nearly daily to check up. They don’t realize how annoying it is to the teachers or just don’t care.

These children are 13 years old and aren’t allowed to make any kind of mistake or learn from having any responsibility or self-advocacy skills. Their parents will just do everything for them. It’s terrible to think what a disservice this will be as their children are forced into the “real world” without their moms there to solve their problems. Unless they follow them to college. Reddit user: sciencenerd86

Talk Over Brunch

I worked in an affluent school. A few parents didn’t like how I graded a couple of their kids’ essays and was inflexible about due dates. Did they set up a parent-teacher meeting to discuss? No. They set up a brunch with the superintendent of the district (a guy 4-5 levels above my head) to discuss what was wrong with me.

Another time I accused a kid of plagiarism on a big research essay. I had proof thanks to turnitin.com. This grade of zero was going to cause the student to not graduate on time, so the mother set up a conference. When I pointed out the offense and showed my evidence, the mother replied, “[student] didn’t cheat because I wrote that part of the essay for her.” I was literally dumbfounded. Reddit user: SleepsontheGround

Call Me, Maybe

This is my 13th year teaching, and I’ve had some doozies. I think this one takes the cake though, as I truly feared for my safety and job. I had a parent go through the phone book (this was a while ago, if you couldn’t tell) and start calling all of the people with MY LAST NAME. She was desperate to reach me.

Why? Because she was upset that her child may need to be retained for first grade. The only reason I knew about this is that she reached my parents, who refused to give her my phone number (and then who called me in a panic about this crazy parent trying to find me). I have an email address, you know. Reddit user: _queen_frostine

I Was His Last Option

Pretty much 95% to 99% of the parents at the private school I worked at. The school is in a rich area. The students are entitled and don’t take responsibility for anything. When students get in trouble, they use their parents to get them out of trouble. The worst parent pulled her son out from one class after another until he landed with me. He literally had had every teacher in the department.

I was his last option. He refused to do homework. When he wrote essays he invented his own prompts, which would have been fine if he had cleared that with me first. The homework assignments he claimed to have completed were 10% done. His mother claimed she checked his homework nightly and was always shocked when I would call her to let her know it wasn’t completed. She felt his lack of success was my fault. Reddit user: [redacted]

Ain’t Got Time For This

I tried to contact this one student’s mother a total of 8 times, each one unsuccessful. At times, someone would answer and just leave the line open and walk away. Other times it would ring over 20 times. I finally got in touch with someone. She admitted she was the mother but would say nothing else but “I ain’t got time for this.”

She said it so many times without stopping that I finally hung up. She called me back 5 seconds later and ripped me a new one for hanging up on her when she had important things to tell me. I worked out the issue with the student after realizing that he had to go home and live with that mess. Reddit user: anotherblisteryday

Scary Stories From The Classroom

Let’s see. During a parent conference, the dad threatened to come back with his friends and “take care of me” if I ever disciplined his child at any time. That included telling him to be quiet, or to do his work, or to mark him down for not bringing in his homework.

He then stormed out of the room and continued to berate me to his kid. Told him that “I was no one” and “he didn’t have to do anything I said.” Mom just sat there like nothing was wrong. Security finally came by to take him off the campus. Then, of course, there was the student who used social media to threaten to kill me.

Even went so far as to describe exactly how it would be done. She and her friend were caught and expelled…no, actually they weren’t. They were given a week suspension, then transferred out of my classroom to another teacher. That’s all. Reddit user: AXPendergast

It Almost Went To Court

The parents who threatened to take me to court for giving their precious child zeroes on two major test grades because I had caught him cheating. Seriously, I’ve never been so taken aback in my life. “But my kid’s at the top of the class! This will ruin that! We’re prepared to take legal action if it comes to that.”

Say what? So let me get this straight: instead of teaching your child that there are consequences to his actions, you’re choosing to show him that you think his problems can be solved by bullying others. Or just throwing money at a problem to make it go away. Good job, guys…I look forward to seeing where this kid goes in life. Reddit user: starinthemargin

Treated Like A Child

This student comes in with her mother. That’s unusual but perhaps there was a good reason. The student (who we’ll call X) was hypoglycemic, and her mother was protective. Problem was that we didn’t realize just how protective that mother was. We’re talking majorly. Came at lunch time to bring her lunch. Sat and watched her eat her lunch. Picked her up after school.

Dropped her off before school. If she’d been allowed she would have stayed with X while she went to class. That poor girl could do nothing, absolutely nothing, without checking in with mother, getting mother’s approval. Mother treated X as if she was a 5-year-old child. As you can guess, X was unable to do even simple things. It was pretty sad. Reddit user: NEHOG

Bribery Rules

Last week at my school, incoming Kindergarteners came in for some initial assessments. One boy kept refusing to answer any questions. That’s when his parents got involved and it got super weird. His mom tells him things like, “If you answer, I have a cupcake in the car,” “You know that letter! Tell the nice teacher and daddy and I will give you $20.”

And on and on. She promised him sweets, toys, money, and everything. I don’t even know what use a 5-year old would have for $20 anyway, but it definitely said a lot about these people as parents. By the time this kid is a 5th grader, his parents will have to promise him a luxury car to finish a math test. Reddit user: Weirdbutnotgone

All Words, No Fight

So, I’ve been teaching martial arts for the past six years, and the absolute worst parents are the ones that complain of injuries. And I’m not talking about broken bones or concussions, I mean aches and pains, bruises. If you were THAT worried about your precious angel, why did you enroll them in a sport that’s derived from hurting people?

But I do have a funny story where we were threatened by an angry dad of one of our younger students. He told us he was gonna come in and kick the butt of his son’s teacher. Well, not only did we muster a squad of higher-level black belts, two of those black belts were also police officers. He left quietly. Reddit user: Galalithial

So Little Care

I had a student a few years ago who started off the year strong: 90s and up on all her tests, good participation, kind of a leader in the classroom. We’ll call her Kiara. Partway through the year, Kiara’s grades suddenly tanked. She got a 70 on a test, and her average was very low towards the end of a marking period.

I had spoken to Kiara’s mother about my concerns but decided to call again as Kiara wasn’t even doing her homework anymore. Kiara’s mother told me that she was tired of hearing from me, and that it was “straining her relationship with her daughter” to have to talk to her about her grades in my class. She made it clear I shouldn’t call again. Reddit user: HedronCat

It Wasn’t Even My Fault

My friend is a teacher. He had the father of one of his “students” threaten him with violence for failing his son. But my friend never had his son, or so he thought. What happened was that the kid skipped his last period class every day of the year. So after two weeks straight of not showing up, my friend just took the kid off the roster.

He noted the change to the proper people in the administration office, but nothing was done (most likely just got lost or forgotten about). Anyway, the dad was escorted off the property by security, and the kid ended up dropping out and getting that good ol’ GED. The father couldn’t even be bothered to check that his kid was going to school. Reddit user: [redacted]

Parents, Not Friends

My wife has been a preschool teacher for several years now, and she’s noticed a disturbing trend of parents refusing to punish their children and instead take their side in all situations. There was one child in particular who would run away from the classroom and hide, he would talk VERY disrespectfully of the teachers, and on several occasions even struck teachers and staff.

Whenever the mother was confronted with his behavior, she would ask what they did to provoke the child and would blame all the child’s problems on the teachers. She even went so far as to scream at one of the teachers in front of all the other parents and kids of the class.

She yelled at her and said she’s failing as an educator and doesn’t know what she’s doing. The next day her child bit a teacher. This is the kind of thing that happens when parents are trying to be friends with their children instead of being parents. Reddit user: vogdswagon26

Playing God

Many years ago, I taught Kindergarten. Before school started, we had a week of meeting one-on-one with students and their parents for about an hour to do a “getting to know you” thing. Pretty standard for most schools. One parent came in, introduced herself and her daughter, and then told me that it was important I know the truth about her daughter.

I was fully expecting something basic: that she’s really shy or doesn’t like sharing her toys or something that can be managed. But no. This woman says that the prophet at church told them that she (the Kindergartener) is, in fact, the second coming of Christ sent to lead the world into salvation. It was a looooooong year. Reddit user: esk_209

Mean Mom Note

Teacher here. I got a note from a parent once that said, “If the kids in your class struggle this much with the way you teach, do you really think you should be teaching?” That one was definitely the worst. She had written the note on a test that her child had failed. I’m assuming her child said everyone had failed, but the class average was somewhere in the 70s.

I had also held extra study sessions and offered a rewrite that the child hadn’t taken advantage of, so I had done what I could. I showed the note to my principal, and he met with the mom and asked her to write an apology, which she did. The student’s grades also improved so everything turned out ok in the end! But it was still not very nice. Reddit user: NorseGirl5

Will She Be A Good Wife?

I’m a male who teaches at the elementary level. I had a Ukrainian girl my first year of fifth grade. So for context, this girl was no more than 9 or 10 years old. During parent/teacher conferences, the father said, “Enough of this academic business. In your opinion as a man, do you feel that my daughter will make a good wife someday?”

It was one of my first conferences ever, and it’s still the weirdest so far. I told him I thought his daughter would be great at whatever she decided to be. It was the first thing I could think of to end the awkward silence, and I guess he seemed to accept my answer as a good one. I still wonder what happened to her. Reddit user: [redacted]]]

An Emotional Ordeal

It was discovered that a female student was signing my last name on all of her schoolwork. We’re not related. Needless to say, it was a huge deal. There were multiple meetings with the administration and the police to see if it was an intimate relationship. I had no idea any of this was even happening, as she wasn’t even in my class anymore.

Finally, they let me know about it (once it became clear I had no idea what was going on and that we were not in direct contact). The final meeting on the subject was with the principal, vice principal, guidance counselor, both parents, the student, and me. They ask her the million-dollar question: “Why are you signing your last name as your former teacher’s?”

The student went into a very long, emotional account of her parent’s divorce, how she lost respect for both of them, and how she no longer wanted their name attached to hers. She chose mine, as I was the “only respectable man in her life.” All this while I’m sitting next to the parents, about 90 minutes after I even learned about this situation. It was a crazy day. Reddit user: [redacted]

She Wouldn’t Help Her

A few years ago, my mom had a class full of second graders, and four of them were dyslexic. She was convinced that a girl in her class was dyslexic as well because she showed all of the signs. She truly was just trying to get this girl the help she deserved, but the parents weren’t willing to go along, to say the least.

She calls a conference for the parents saying she thinks their child is dyslexic and she should get tested. Well long story short, the mother refused to get her tested because she thought her daughter was perfect. My mom had to basically hold her hand throughout the school year because she wasn’t able to read any quizzes, tests, or homework assignments. My mom was so upset with the parents. I hope that little girl finally got the help she needed. Reddit user: cb1127

Mouse Trap

Parent and teacher conferences, my first year (paid) teaching. A parent comes in, literally with one minute to go before we’re off for the night. So we’re chatting, and her daughter is a great student, so it’s an easy conference. Then I feel something hit my head.

Parent: Mouse! Me: (Looking around) WHO OVER HERE IS THROWING A MOUSE AT ME? Parent: No, a real mouse! Look! She points at the ground and I see an actual, real life mouse. I look up and see that it had dropped from a ceiling tile missing in the ceiling. It scurries underneath my coworker’s desk. He’s also having a conference with a parent.

Somebody yells to him, and he looks down, STOMPS the mouse with his boot, and continues the conference like nothing happened. Best part was at the next staff meeting; one of my coworkers gifted me a bike helmet covered in mouse traps for “protection.” Reddit user: TheyCallMeBoz

Walmart Field Trip

My mother was an elementary school teacher for over 20 years, so I’ve heard a lot of stories. This one is probably my favorite. At an after-school conference, a student’s parents wanted my mother to stop giving homework in the middle of the week. Not because it was too difficult or due to the kid playing sports (that’s another story)….

But because on Wednesday nights, that was when their family went to the local Walmart and spent 3 or 4 hours in the store. They weren’t even shopping or getting groceries, they just walked around. It was just a normal family outing for them, like Disneyland or going to the movies. I like Walmart as much as the next person, but really? Reddit user: [redacted]

I’m Just The Student Teacher

Student teacher here. I was left alone in the classroom my first year of university. This was a huge no-no, but the classroom teacher trusted me and figured what could happen in the five minutes she went to the washroom? A child’s father came in, assumed I was the substitute, and started blatantly hitting on me in front of the class of first grade students.

I blushed hardcore and explained I was just the student teacher. I was only 18 at the time during my explanation. He looked embarrassed, went to help his kid get ready to leave, and then the regular teacher came back. Apparently I still looked shell-shocked, because the regular teacher pulled me aside and asked what happened. Best part? The classroom teacher told me he was still married to the boy’s mother. Reddit user: TickTick_Tick