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You must be joking!

While volunteering today, I got into a conversation with a first grade teacher - we were discussing yesterday's Oprah with Rabbi Shumley on parents spoiling their children. It's one of the top 10 teacher conversation topics. Anyhoo... she told me that a parent had actually called her and started yelling at her because her first grader had come home and told her that they "had a field trip and went on a plane trip" and she had not given permission for the child to take a plane trip. Yah. We don't have enough money to buy all the supplies we need, but we do have enough to fly students around the country. This would be after another parent called the school to yell at the principal because a teacher had refused to allow a student to wear his coat home.

Seriously.

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Euclid said…
Wear the teacher's coat home??

I'm shaking my head in disbelief.
6:19 PM
Jennifer said…
Oh...the teacher stories I could tell!

I haven't visited your site in awhile. The new design looks great!
11:53 AM
Ryan said…
I had a parent last year convinced that I took their son to Riverfront Park, paid for them to go on a gondola ride, and then we all went shopping and had lunch at Red Robin.

It's awfully hard not to laugh in their faces sometimes.
6:13 PM
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