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Imagine you're in the kitchen making dinner and simply hoping your kid is self-dependent enough to make it back home safely. However, the first thing they do when they see you is hand over a note from their teacher. Yikes. I mean, teachers usually do a really good job maintaining order in the classroom, and guiding their students towards a brighter tomorrow. So if they think the little one acted out in a way that requires parental adjustments, it's probably something... surprising. And that's not the word mothers and fathers like to hear. Continue scrolling and check out some of the cringiest notes teachers have written to poor mothers and fathers.
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#1
Good News And Bad News
Experts say it's not unusual for kids to behave differently in different settings. After all, you'd expect a child to act one way at a friend's birthday party and another when visiting the grandparents. But the behavior of some kids — especially those with issues such as anxiety, learning disabilities, ADHD, and autism — can vary much more markedly, especially when they're at home versus school. This discrepancy can leave parents puzzled, if not upset, and worried that they're making huge mistakes.
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#2
Violet's (My Cousin's Daughter) Drawing On The Right, Teachers Note On The Left
Helen Haley 5 years ago
I'd be upset that she got the line wrong, and pleased that the drawing was so good.
Some kids may meet expectations at school, but if it's a struggle for them, it can take its toll at home. Children with ADHD, anxiety, autism, and learning disabilities "may be using a lot of their resources to follow directions or cope in the classroom," Stephanie Lee, PsyD, a clinical psychologist at the Child Mind Institute, said. Once all these kids get home, "it's challenging for them to conjure up the same amount of resources to manage."
She also added that many kids, in fact, benefit from the consistency, structure, predictability, and routine that come with their school environment. This often cannot be repeated at home "because that's not how life works."
#3
Too Pretty To Work
Stephanie Did It 5 years ago
My daughter had a student named Neveah (yeah, Heaven backwards) who didn't have to mind because "I'm a princess." Mom confirmed this. Poor kid has a rude awakening coming, thanks to Mommy.
But for most kids, academic and social demands at school are beyond what they typically face at home, Dr. Lee pointed out. That may trigger problem behaviors they don't exhibit at home.
For example, children with social anxiety who worry about how they're being perceived by others, or children who have anxieties relating to performance, might have fewer problem behaviors at home but when they get to school and have to do math or read a passage aloud, they might engage in some negative behaviors to avoid that. “Acting out in this particular situation might end up being functional for them," Dr. Lee said, "because if they act a little silly, the teacher might scold them, but then they move on."
#4
"During Math Today Max Was Having A Hard Time Following Along. When I Asked Him Why He Wasn’t Doing His Work, Max Responded, ‘Well, I’m Just Too Good Looking!’”
#5
The Biggest Booger Ball
#6
Got A Note From The Teacher
#7
Quiet Voices
#8
"Amara Has A Worm In Her Pocket. She Did Not Want To Throw It Away. I Just Wanted To Give You A Heads Up"
#9
“[Your Kid] And A Few Of His Friends Often Make Up Characters, Give Them Amusing Names, And Then Have Exciting Adventures At Playtimes. This In Itself Is An Imaginative And Creative Pastime … However, It Has Come To Our Attention That One Of The Characters Has The Name 'Wildo The Dildo'”
![“[Your Kid] And A Few Of His Friends Often Make Up Characters, Give Them Amusing Names, And Then Have Exciting Adventures At Playtimes. This In Itself Is An Imaginative And Creative Pastime … However, It Has Come To Our Attention That One Of The Characters Has The Name 'Wildo The Dildo'”](https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/828996763893772290-png__700.jpg "“[Your Kid] And A Few Of His Friends Often Make Up Characters, Give Them Amusing Names, And Then Have Exciting Adventures At Playtimes. This In Itself Is An Imaginative And Creative Pastime … However, It Has Come To Our Attention That One Of The Characters Has The Name 'Wildo The Dildo'”")
#10
The Ultimate Juxtaposition Of Naughty And Nice Came Home In Allie’s Folder Today
#11
Picked Up My Toddler From School And Was Handed This Note. I'm Scared To Look
#12
Not The Best Day Back
Deborah B 5 years ago
I would enquire as to the cause of Lillian's threat. It could be legitimate self assertion. As in "If you don't take your hand off my butt, I will turn around and punch you in the nuts." Girls need to taught that they have the right to defend themselves against harassment and intimidation; immediately, loudly, and if necessary, physically.
#13
Got Detention While Playing School With Our Youngest. Figures
#14
Tatertot Has Special Talents!
#15
Let This Be A Lesson For Everyone, Never Under Any Circumstance Let Your Friends Smell Your Chapstick
#16
On This Day, Two Years Ago, I Found Out My Son Liked Big Butts
#17
"Demi Cut Her Hair Today. I'm So Sorry"
#18
These Kids Are Nuts
#20
“Another Student Took Her Pencil And She Referred To Him As A ‘Hanzo Main.’ I Have No Idea What That Means, However, It Was Clearly Meant As An Insult”
#21
Charlotte Was Very Challenging
#22
A Note From The Teacher That Came Home With The Kid Today
#23
“Kimmy Was Very Proud Of Her Poem … But We’re Going To Try Another One Next Week Without The Potty Language”
#24
“When I Was Reading To The Class, Tanner Removed His Shoe And Sock And Began Playing With Something. It Was A Dead Lizard. I Removed The Sock — It Smelled Of Dead Things”
Samantha Lomb 5 years ago
So the kid killed the lizard and then played with it's corpse? Kids are so cruel
#25
This Little Note Was In X's Folder When He Got Home... Sneaky Sneaky
#26
Seems Like A Decent Day At School To Me
#27
My Friend Found A Note Given To His Parents From His First Grade Teacher
David Martin 5 years ago
Johnathan has what? Johnathan has WHAT?! I need the second page of this letter, I demand closure dang it! >_<
#28
"Raeya Used The Child Safe Scissors To Cut Her Hair Today. A Teacher Stopped Her After One Snip"
Ola Polowczyk 5 years ago
Why do they attach the hair to the notes??? They think the parents will glue them back or something?
#29
Notes From School
#30
"During Math Aiden Told Another Student He Drew A Boy With A Penis, Pooping... I Explained That We Don't Need To Talk About Penises And Pooping During Math"
Oskar vanZandt 5 years ago
What age is this child? I think using "penis" and "pooping" is quite appropriate- children need to learn what their body parts are called and what their use is... if the child had used other terminology, I'd be more concerned. As a parent I would have a frank talk with him.
#31
My 6 Year Old Daughter Came Home From School With A Note. Written By The School Lunch Supervisor
Stephanie Did It 5 years ago
Brie cheese in a school lunch? Where does this kid go to school, Beverly Hills?
#32
Sleeping In Class
#33
And This Is Why I Love Sean And Chad
#34
"Please Do Not Allow Keith To Bring Any Live Pets To School In The Future..."
#35
"Today Haiden Had To Be Moved To The Library For A Time Out. While There He Ripped This Book"
Samantha Lomb 5 years ago
That's a kid with some behavior issues. And now the parents have to pay to replace the book
#36
Ryleigh, Really?!
#37
Kindergarten’s Going Great
#38
Sleepyhead
#39
"Aysha Had A Tough Day Of Listening At School. She Ended Up In The 'Think About It Chair 2x'”
Samantha Lomb 5 years ago
if she needs directions repeated ( for assignments and stuff, not behaving correctly) I would be concerned maybe she has a learning disability. She should be tested before being punished
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What do you think ?
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
Yes, and they should be disciplined for it. Can't have kids going around and saying rude and stupid things and making dumb decisions. That's something that presidents do.
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Louloubelle 5 years ago
Many of these make me wonder how they'll keep the kids from getting Covid. Little ones by their very natures are impulsive and are constantly touching each other. Good luck teachers. No idea how you're going to do this.
Wendy Warner 5 years ago
Little secret here ... we won t keep them from getting covid, teachers will try, try their very best but the measures in place in the US and UK are simply far from enough... and the sad thing is, teachers will most likely catch it too while they try to keep your little ones as safe as they can...
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Jessica 5 years ago
for real! I worked in a pre-school we never ever wrote note saying their kids isn't listening lol NO CHILD LISTENES AND BEHAVES 100% of the time. it was our job to keep them engaged and interested.. if they weren't they we just try something else!
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Your Local Lizard 5 years ago
Dear teachers, Please improve your handwriting. -A human who read everything as "eeee"
Anne 5 years ago
How old are you? (out of curiosity!) - I just saw there's a challenge on tiktok to write your name without taking your pen from paper.. and that is just writing cursive, like most people over 30 were taught
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B-b-bird 5 years ago
I really hope that teachers talk to children to understand reasons behind their behaviour, before they write a note. Still feel upset from preschool when teacher was saying to my parents i'm "a liar" :) when in fact I loved fantasizing, like drawing unreal situations (like moms portrait on a postage stamp, like she would be the queen, or dad driving taxi, even though it wasn't his job). When asked by parents why did I lie, didn't know what to answer, all I knew that it's something bad I did and shouldn't be fantasizing anymore :( Hope I will always always find a time to talk and understand my children properly, no matter the age.
Karen Lyon 5 years ago
I am sorry that you had to go through that. My niece had a similar experience -- she told her 1st grade PE teacher that she was born in South Africa and spun a whole story around it. The PE teacher told my niece it made her sad when kids lied, and then called my sister at work. My poor sister wrote me an email with the heading "I have a horrible child". I wrote her back and told her the PE teacher was full of it (she did end up being a piece of work), that her credential program didn't involve her actually learning about how kids develop. I reassured her that her daughter's fantasizing was quite normal for her age. PE teachers can get away with being oblivious, maybe, but teachers in preschool programs are supposed to know all that. It's a damn shame your preschool teachers didn't
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DforDorothy 5 years ago (edited)
It's crazy where the world is going(starting with the USA). Most of these letters are useless, because it's about an issue, that doesn't need reporting to parents. Growing up in the nineties, we all did these stuff more or less and the teachers handled it in the school and that was it. We grew up to be normal people, with jobs, families and socially integrated. Nowadays a kid is reported to the parents if he/she says"butt" at class, the student reports the teachers and parents if they try to moderate him,and the parents reports the teacher if that gives a bad grade to it's kid, all this, while mommy/daddy is watching the kid in school, on webcam online. Thankfully most of Europe is not this f*ucked Up...yet.
Karen Lyon 5 years ago
Yeah, it's not that simple. Kids go home and talk about how they got in trouble, and they "didn't do anything!" In some settings, if children are disciplined for anything, the teachers need to send home a note as documentation. For one reason, to stave off the "You're just picking on my child" nonsense. And for another, to keep parents from saying, "But she/he has never done that before!" when they move on in school and act up with another teacher. I can also tell you that some of those notes look like they are from a behavior plan. Which means their behavior has gotten to the point where regular notes have to go home about how the day went. I have had to do more than one of those.
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somnomania 4 years ago
sorry, but where's the cringe part of this? i came in expecting lots of examples of teachers overstepping, but most of these are great, either funny or just "ah, kids, what can you do"
jevais 5 years ago
I don't understand these teachers. Unbelievable that most of these teachers took the comments on a 1st degree. Kids try out naught words to see the reactions of adults. The teachers just have to explain that it's not right and it makes others uncomfortable. For lies, kids live in fantasy world or try to outsmart others. Don't worry and make a big deal of it, as long nobody gets hurt.
*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 5 years ago
Now I just remember 1st grade me and my (now ex) bestfriend cutting off literally a fingernail's length of hair and gluing it onto a little piece of paper and giving them to each other. The teacher gave us this disgusted look, and screamed at us for 10 minutes about why that was disgusting and then made us, 2 barely 6-year-olds, write an apology letter to her and our parents, for cutting off basically a gecko's head length of hair to give as a promise to each other that we'd be bffs forever. Some adults are a bit... much...
Cheri Aline Sydney 4 years ago
Yellow tubby, I am just sad to see that she is now your "ex"....
Load More Replies... John Smith 5 years ago
What kind of clickbait title is this? These mostly aren't cringey. Nor are they mean toward poor kids.
Shelley DuVal 4 years ago
Half of the notes from the teacher were quite unreadable. Apparently teachers don't need to set examples to their students.
Dorothy Cloud 5 years ago
I realize that they are not teaching cursive in school anymore, but surely the teachers must know how to write it. And hopefully parents know how to read it! Maybe Not!
True Blue 5 years ago
Detention is still a thing but the strap? For like whipping?!
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WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
Yes, and they should be disciplined for it. Can't have kids going around and saying rude and stupid things and making dumb decisions. That's something that presidents do.
Load More Replies... Louloubelle 5 years ago
Many of these make me wonder how they'll keep the kids from getting Covid. Little ones by their very natures are impulsive and are constantly touching each other. Good luck teachers. No idea how you're going to do this.
Wendy Warner 5 years ago
Little secret here ... we won t keep them from getting covid, teachers will try, try their very best but the measures in place in the US and UK are simply far from enough... and the sad thing is, teachers will most likely catch it too while they try to keep your little ones as safe as they can...
Load More Replies... Jessica 5 years ago
for real! I worked in a pre-school we never ever wrote note saying their kids isn't listening lol NO CHILD LISTENES AND BEHAVES 100% of the time. it was our job to keep them engaged and interested.. if they weren't they we just try something else!
Load More Replies... Your Local Lizard 5 years ago
Dear teachers, Please improve your handwriting. -A human who read everything as "eeee"
Anne 5 years ago
How old are you? (out of curiosity!) - I just saw there's a challenge on tiktok to write your name without taking your pen from paper.. and that is just writing cursive, like most people over 30 were taught
Load More Replies... B-b-bird 5 years ago
I really hope that teachers talk to children to understand reasons behind their behaviour, before they write a note. Still feel upset from preschool when teacher was saying to my parents i'm "a liar" :) when in fact I loved fantasizing, like drawing unreal situations (like moms portrait on a postage stamp, like she would be the queen, or dad driving taxi, even though it wasn't his job). When asked by parents why did I lie, didn't know what to answer, all I knew that it's something bad I did and shouldn't be fantasizing anymore :( Hope I will always always find a time to talk and understand my children properly, no matter the age.
Karen Lyon 5 years ago
I am sorry that you had to go through that. My niece had a similar experience -- she told her 1st grade PE teacher that she was born in South Africa and spun a whole story around it. The PE teacher told my niece it made her sad when kids lied, and then called my sister at work. My poor sister wrote me an email with the heading "I have a horrible child". I wrote her back and told her the PE teacher was full of it (she did end up being a piece of work), that her credential program didn't involve her actually learning about how kids develop. I reassured her that her daughter's fantasizing was quite normal for her age. PE teachers can get away with being oblivious, maybe, but teachers in preschool programs are supposed to know all that. It's a damn shame your preschool teachers didn't
Load More Replies... DforDorothy 5 years ago (edited)
It's crazy where the world is going(starting with the USA). Most of these letters are useless, because it's about an issue, that doesn't need reporting to parents. Growing up in the nineties, we all did these stuff more or less and the teachers handled it in the school and that was it. We grew up to be normal people, with jobs, families and socially integrated. Nowadays a kid is reported to the parents if he/she says"butt" at class, the student reports the teachers and parents if they try to moderate him,and the parents reports the teacher if that gives a bad grade to it's kid, all this, while mommy/daddy is watching the kid in school, on webcam online. Thankfully most of Europe is not this f*ucked Up...yet.
Karen Lyon 5 years ago
Yeah, it's not that simple. Kids go home and talk about how they got in trouble, and they "didn't do anything!" In some settings, if children are disciplined for anything, the teachers need to send home a note as documentation. For one reason, to stave off the "You're just picking on my child" nonsense. And for another, to keep parents from saying, "But she/he has never done that before!" when they move on in school and act up with another teacher. I can also tell you that some of those notes look like they are from a behavior plan. Which means their behavior has gotten to the point where regular notes have to go home about how the day went. I have had to do more than one of those.
Load More Replies... somnomania 4 years ago
sorry, but where's the cringe part of this? i came in expecting lots of examples of teachers overstepping, but most of these are great, either funny or just "ah, kids, what can you do"
jevais 5 years ago
I don't understand these teachers. Unbelievable that most of these teachers took the comments on a 1st degree. Kids try out naught words to see the reactions of adults. The teachers just have to explain that it's not right and it makes others uncomfortable. For lies, kids live in fantasy world or try to outsmart others. Don't worry and make a big deal of it, as long nobody gets hurt.
*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 5 years ago
Now I just remember 1st grade me and my (now ex) bestfriend cutting off literally a fingernail's length of hair and gluing it onto a little piece of paper and giving them to each other. The teacher gave us this disgusted look, and screamed at us for 10 minutes about why that was disgusting and then made us, 2 barely 6-year-olds, write an apology letter to her and our parents, for cutting off basically a gecko's head length of hair to give as a promise to each other that we'd be bffs forever. Some adults are a bit... much...
Cheri Aline Sydney 4 years ago
Yellow tubby, I am just sad to see that she is now your "ex"....
Load More Replies... John Smith 5 years ago
What kind of clickbait title is this? These mostly aren't cringey. Nor are they mean toward poor kids.
Shelley DuVal 4 years ago
Half of the notes from the teacher were quite unreadable. Apparently teachers don't need to set examples to their students.
Dorothy Cloud 5 years ago
I realize that they are not teaching cursive in school anymore, but surely the teachers must know how to write it. And hopefully parents know how to read it! Maybe Not!
True Blue 5 years ago
Detention is still a thing but the strap? For like whipping?!
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