....it's always the two moany ones that you dwell on?

Had to mention 'attitude' to Y6 parents and just got told that 'he's bored' and 'you're not stretching him so it's no wonder he's switched off'  Not sure exactly how I managed to stay calm as I explained that there was always extension work available but their son was too busy messing around and making silly errors to ever get on to it!

Now keep wondering if they are right so I feel like rubbish.

Fe.ck them. They're typical of the many these days who find it impossible to take responsibility.

i teach gat children in a school known for its gat provision

i have had children pass through my classroom who were awe-inspiringly intelligent and a joy to teach. who outstripped regular lesons without even trying.

and not once - not once - has any of their parents claimed their kids are bored/unchallenged/hard done by/playing up because of same

the parents of less intelligent children, however .....

And I've just got back from a parent's evening (the other way round) where I was told off for not hearing my fluently reading son read 3x a week and signing the book (sorry, I've just got a new job and ofsted came to call, I have 3 children - one with profound special needs - and I'm completely worn out), and now I feel like a bad parent, I have a horrid stress headache and my nose has gone numb.

Hey ho.  Can't win 'em all.  Good thing I love him to bits, whatever he does.

(however, if she tells me again how he's 'not as bright as all that' when all I have done is express my pleasure in him I might just have to deck her!!

I'll stop now before I get all ranty!!!

I'm still fuming from the parent (beginning of Jan) who said all the teachers were responsible for the fact that there were so many behaviour problems in his daughter's Y9 form (many which had been exaggerated by daughter to get herself out of trouble) because we refuse to make them leave the school!

When I explained that it is not within our power to do that (Oh, how I wish we could!) and that, in fact, I regularly chucked out the miscreants from my lessons only to have them return the following day, he came back with, "Well, you all get lots of vacations where you're paid for doing nothing, so  you don't care!"

Where the f*** did that come from?

I was shaking by the time he went.  But rest assured, the following day his daughter couldn't even sniff without me on her back, quoting her father.  Not the girl's fault, but hey ... life sucks! (And it was only for one lesson)