Retired urban public high school teacher here. The parents I dealt with ranged from the supportive to the cowed (by their children) to the irrationally angry.
But there was one group I could usually count on. That group was the black grandmothers. They were almost always on my side. And they took no guff from their grandchildren.
Yeah, the mothers can be rough though. I had a women try to punch an English teacher friend of mine.
Interesting. I would’ve guessed asian parents to be the most supportive. Didn’t expect black grandmothers to be at the top of the list.
One thing has always mystified me. A friend taught Spanish in an inner-city junior high and there was one male student who terrified most of the students and teachers. The teachers called his mother in for a conference. She said, “I fix that boy,” and he behaved from thereon in. It’s not the first time I’ve seen or heard of the phenomenon. Do you know how they do it?
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My sister got a call from the school saying that her 7yo daughter was using bad language,
Response: “Well, she doesn’t get any of that sh*t around here!”
She didn’t realize what she had said until after she had hung up.