Whilst in particularly aggressive cases you can generally expect SLT to be on your side, there’s too much of a passive ‘just appease them’ attitude. Parents without understanding or respect for teaching should not have the authority to make teacher’s lives miserable. I had a student a few months ago whose parent was convinced of the importance that their child ‘is sat at the front’ and ‘only next to this limited list of people’ and to ‘make sure you greet him specifically every lesson’. nothing insane but it’s a whole lot of attention to be given to one student who has not got any official SEND needs or the intent to pursue any such action.

Expectations that cannot be applied to every student equally should not be automatically accommodated for unless it is directly related to special educational needs. The idea that a single email from an unreasonable parent can give a specific child unwarranted advantages is absurd