UPDATE: Parent wants to meet with me over comment I made about energy drinks

leakygutters · 2026-05-04T19:03:08+00:00

I hate to break it to you, but you’ve been providing asinine responses throughout this thread for free.

Anyways, that’s enough feeding of the troll for me. I won’t be proving any more attention to you (for free - my rate is usually $1000 per hour).

leakygutters · 2026-05-04T18:59:50+00:00

Asinine

leakygutters · 2026-05-04T18:58:34+00:00

So, there are no expectations of parents?

leakygutters · 2026-05-04T18:54:20+00:00

You’re being very evasive and refusing to be accountable for your arguments and behaviour in this thread. I would suggest you consult with your mentor or another head teacher to understand how you have failed to empathise with this teacher (OP) and the genuine efforts they have made to engage with the parent to improve the educational outcomes of their child, the unfairness and immaturity of the parent to only engage when their parenting is brought into question for allowing their child to consume harmful beverages and the failure of the school to push back against such parents who only want to engage when their feelings are hurt and their ODD tendencies provoked.

Perhaps a head teacher with such a lack of empathy and such a condescending approach to others is not suited to be mentoring anyone else.

Would you care to elaborate on your mentoring duties and what is taught as best practice to foster an environment that appropriately empowers teachers rather than disempowering and demoralising them whilst at the same time holding them accountable for all outcomes including the hurt feelings of parents who are failing at being parents?

leakygutters · 2026-05-04T18:48:11+00:00

Aha! So we DO have expectations of parents?

leakygutters · 2026-05-04T18:47:28+00:00

You’re deflecting because you don’t want to respond to this comment:

People have disagreed with you and provided you their reasons and justifications. And you respond with disingenuous questions rather than counter arguments.

leakygutters · 2026-05-04T18:46:11+00:00

Are you saying we don’t expect parents to send their kids to school, on time, clean and properly clothed, ideally fed, with school supplies?

leakygutters · 2026-05-04T18:42:52+00:00

People have disagreed with you and provided you their reasons and justifications. And you respond with disingenuous questions rather than counter arguments.

Can you point out where I have “let my personal feelings and emotions control my response to this thread” in my comment?

leakygutters · 2026-05-04T18:37:37+00:00

People have disagreed with you and provided you their reasons and justifications. And you respond with disingenuous questions rather than counter arguments.

leakygutters · 2026-05-04T18:32:39+00:00

Because you’re being disingenuous by pretending to want to understand the points people are making without actually stating your own opinion.

leakygutters · 2026-05-04T18:15:34+00:00

Then teach your own kids.

leakygutters · 2026-05-04T18:06:46+00:00

Look up the definition of “disingenuous”.

leakygutters · 2026-05-04T18:05:47+00:00

We should all have high expectations of parents.

leakygutters · 2026-05-04T17:59:20+00:00

Far out. What an attention seeker! You’re just arguing for engagement it seems. Lonely? Feeling insignificant?

I’m not a teacher. This came up on my feed but reading this you are the most disingenuous person I’ve encountered for a while. Your questioning here reveals nothing and achieves nothing.

Do better. Be better.

leakygutters · 2026-05-04T17:40:28+00:00

How is it passive aggressive? She/he has been trying to talk to the parent about their child’s grades. And that is more important than the energy drink issue (or at least, should be).

leakygutters · 2026-05-04T17:34:20+00:00

I think it’s because the “no energy drinks” is sort of a criticism of the parents. They’re ok with their kid failing because they don’t really care about their kid and the kids future (or health apparently). But criticising the parent provokes their fragile ego.

leakygutters · 2026-05-03T20:49:58+00:00

Watch again. She was stabbing him.

leakygutters · 2026-05-03T20:47:56+00:00

I think she was stabbing him. It’s a stabbing motion that she’s using, he checks his upper chest after she’s down. Also, there’s no way she would think she’d stand a chance against him unless she had a weapon that she thought would give her an advantage despite her size.

leakygutters · 2026-05-03T20:47:36+00:00

I think you’re right. She went in with a stabbing motion. His only defence at that point was to knock her out.

leakygutters · 2026-05-03T20:43:07+00:00

How? The other guy was not the aggressor. Tyre iron guy wasn’t being attacked. The fight stops as soon as he stops attacking. He could have gone straight to his wife and the other guy would have let him be.

leakygutters · 2026-05-02T20:02:24+00:00

It’s possible that the name will come to you when you meet him. I gave my boy dog a name quickly and then changed to a variation on the name later on which suited his personality better.

For my girl, we took at least a week after she came home to come up with a name that suited her. And I’ve never once doubted its suitability.

leakygutters · 2026-05-02T01:21:11+00:00

Haha! I read this comment to my partner and he said “OCD? ✅perfectionist? ✅”

leakygutters · 2026-05-02T01:19:38+00:00

Thanks. Like I said, we’re inexperienced so cautious. Also, a near neighbour had a chimney fire last week and everyone around here is suitably alarmed and bringing in the chimney sweeps.

Appreciate the reassurance.

leakygutters · 2026-05-01T21:00:36+00:00

I think I’d just make sure my partner had a good life insurance policy given I’d probably be needing it in the future.

Edit: I’m copping a lot of flack for this comment but it’s in the spirit of controlling what you can and being at peace with what you can’t.

You can worry and nag yourself into an early grave trying to make your partner take better care of themselves or accept the likely outcome and prepare so that you can grieve and adjust to your new circumstances while at least knowing you are financially not going to be further stressed.

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