The date
I was talking with the parents when the father – within earshot of his wife – remarked that I was very pretty and would like to go on a date with me. The woman jumped up and ran out crying.
Confession
A mother said only this – when I called her in because of her son's bad behavior – that she hates the child and never wanted him, only her ex-husband insisted that someone carry on the family name. I just sat there, not knowing what to say.
The outfit
I called in a mother because her 16-year-old daughter regularly came to school in "inappropriate" clothing, only for the mother to show up wearing a see-through top and a tiny miniskirt, with her thong visible.
In an illuminated state
I told the child that this time his mother should come to the parent-teacher meeting – because the father always arrived dead drunk – then the mother showed up so high she could barely keep her eyes open and giggled throughout.
Opinions
Sentences uttered by parents: "My daughter doesn't need a diploma because she's pretty." "My son doesn't need to know how to count; he'll work in the fields like us anyway." "I won't take his phone because then he's sad, what's wrong if he takes photos under girls' skirts?!"
The monologue
One father asked to speak and in a profanity-laden monologue explained that he was going to beat me because his child is terrified of me since I singled him out and terrorize him with math and surely told the class not to sit next to him so he would be lonely every lesson. I tried to interrupt several times, but the man just got louder. When he finally stopped, I told him I am the music teacher.
Police
A mother called the police on me because I took her child's phone during class.
Fight
The father and mother divorced, then started blaming each other for the child's declining performance. So much so that during one parent-teacher meeting, they got into a fight in the middle of a verbal battle. (The father was a short, thin man, and the mother was a tall, sturdy woman, so the fight was balanced.) Another father tried to separate them but got slapped so hard by the woman that he lost a tooth. An ambulance and police had to be called, and it became a court case. In the end, the woman had to pay deeply out of her pocket for the man's dental treatment.
The test
The mother of one problematic student came to a parent-teacher meeting. Every teacher had issues with the child, not just me. The mother arrived and hugged me. This caught me off guard because we don't usually hug parents, and it was my first time meeting her. Of course, I hugged back, but then she didn't even sit down to talk with me. She immediately went to the principal and told him I didn’t pass her "hug test" (because I hesitated for a moment) and that means I am a "cold, racist" person.
The letters
I called in the mother of an eighth-grade boy because I considered it a problem that her 15-year-old son, who had repeated a year, practically could not read. However, the mother did not bat an eye, saying her child does not need these "academic nonsense" because he will be a professional athlete. (The boy did play soccer but not at a high level.) Finally, she asked if I would pass the child in Hungarian if she had sex with me.
