Recently, people shared the most out-of-touch things rich students at their schools had said and done. And yeah, the stories were WILD.
Inspired by the sheer outrageousness of these submissions, I couldn't help but wonder: what about the most out-of-touch things rich students' PARENTS have said and done?
So, I went ahead and asked teachers to share their entitled wealthy parent stories. Needless to say, their submissions were just as unbelievable. Keep scrolling, dear reader, to subject yourself to the most sickening responses:
1. "I had a student who was trying to get into a private school that had a better rating than our school. They said that their mom and dad planned on buying a house by the school just to use that address to be zoned for the school. However, they wouldn't be living in it — they were LITERALLY just buying it for the address. The student said it so casually like it was just something you did."
—Anonymous
2. "I had a parent tell me they were going camping right after school, so they would be picking up their student with the camper. Come pick-up time, the parent pulled up in the most massive airstream I’ve ever seen. She hopped out and proudly said, 'The camper is a great investment! And it’s actually not that expensive. It’s worth $300,000, but we got ours for only $60,000. It was such a good deal. You should really get one!' Yeah, as if I have an extra $60,000 to buy an airstream."
—Anonymous
3. "During an in-person individualized education program meeting, one service provider joined via Google Meet. The parent threw a $100 bill towards the computer and demanded to get the program he wanted his child to use during speech services."
—Anonymous
4. "Some parents asked me to put together a comprehensive list of academic activities to keep their child busy during their two-week cruise, and asked that the activities included learning about the places they visited on said cruise."
—Anonymous
5. "I work at a very small private school. The academics are really good, so we constantly get grouchy rich parents. One student's mom believed everything her precious daughter said, and created a Facebook page dedicated to gossip about the school and even bribed teachers (with thousands) to try and tell her inside information. On Facebook, she continuously posted gossip about students."
"One of the sixth graders told everyone she was pregnant (she wasn’t, she just wanted attention) and this mom posted that there were teen pregnancies at this school. She also said that the Co2 levels were too high, and that an entire fourth-grade class went home throwing up because of it, which never happened. Then she got the fire department to show up because of 'carbon dioxide.' She also filmed a bunch of kids at recess and posted it on Facebook — I’m not sure what the point of that was. We had to force her to take the video down, plus ban her from campus. If anyone corrected her or said anything positive about the school, she would block them from her precious group."
—Anonymous
6. "I'm a high school biology teacher, and I assigned an insect collection for students. I explained where some great locations were, and what time to find such insects. Then I had a wealthy student’s dad send me an email saying, 'Where we live — right by the nicest golf course in the state — we don’t have insects.' After much thought, I replied with, 'If those insects cannot be found in your area, then poor you — you will have to go to less fortunate areas. Everyone else in the state has plenty of insects to collect.'"
—Anonymous
7. "I'm not a teacher, but a coach. I oversee the entire baseball program at a private school, and at the beginning of the season, I divide the players into varsity and junior varsity. When the teams are made, there's always a moderate rush of upset emails and calls from parents regarding how their child was placed. One year, the parents of a kid placed on JV threatened to pull their annual donation to the school fund if their kid wasn't bumped up to varsity. The fight went all the way up to the administration, and they eventually settled things with the disgruntled parents. My questions are: How is that gonna help your child? What's gonna happen when everyone finds out mommy and daddy essentially paid the school to get your son on varsity? The kid ended up being a manager for the varsity team. He was a nice young man, but a mediocre athlete."
—Anonymous
8. "We were having a class party and my coworker and I were going to pay for it all. One of the moms came up to us and said, 'Here's $100 to pay for everything because I know you all can't afford it.' I mean, how rude could one person be? I wanted to say thank you, but why make that comment?"
—Anonymous
9. "I work at a large boarding school. One set of rich parents tried to move their 13-year-old son's personal chef into the dormitories with him. They were genuinely concerned that he wouldn't eat any other food except the custom meals he'd had cooked for him his entire life."
—Anonymous
10. "I worked at a very prestigious school once and quickly realized how demanding some of these parents were. One of my student's parents argued with me because their son got a 98% on a vocabulary quiz. They found my cell phone number online, called me on a Friday afternoon, and argued about why they believed their son deserved to get a 100 instead because they disagreed with the usage of one of the vocabulary words in a fill-in-the-blank portion part of the text. They argued that they were a well-to-do lawyer, and therefore knew how this word was used."
—Anonymous
11. "During my first year teaching, a family went on a two-week vacation during the school year and demanded that I provide the work their daughter would be missing ahead of time so she could complete it while they were gone. They returned with no completed work. I asked and asked for it, but I kept getting blown off. The student told me her parents said she didn’t have to do the work, and she bragged to the entire class that I couldn’t fail her. I ended up giving failing grades and the parents went ballistic and showed up to the school. After that, the principal told me I couldn’t give the student anything lower than a C for the missing/incomplete work."
—Anonymous
12. "When I worked at a private school as a theatre teacher, I had parents send an au pair to watch their kids' performance. Turned out this person wasn't actually an au pair though — nope, they were just some random person they'd hired to watch their kids perform. She didn't even know the children's names."
—Anonymous
13. "One of my students didn't like to write, so I was supposed to do it for him. I told the mother that I wasn't going to do it because he was completely capable, and she pulled out the money card, but I didn't budge. Next thing I knew, the principal came in to see me and told me how this particular family had donated the property where the school was built. The whole thing turned into a giant meeting with mom, grandma, aunt, the principal, and me. For the remainder of the year, the child didn't have to do his writing assignments."
—Anonymous
14. "This year, I had a mom give me a gift card to a discount store. She also wrote a note on it that I should sign up for a membership so that I could get another discount. Her son wore designer everything, and she felt the need to rub it in my face that I’m broke."
15. "When school first shut down because of COVID, I had a parent wonder why all the families didn’t 'just go buy their kids a laptop so we could get right to Google Meet learning.'"
—Anonymous
16. "One year, I had some fifth graders — who had wealthy parents — who constantly left the caps off dry erase markers even though I constantly reminded them that it was ridiculous. I explained to them that it was a huge waste of my time and money to always be buying new ones. Over the next few days, I was inundated with packs of brand new markers. While I truly appreciated the parents being so supportive, I had trouble with the casual acceptance that the markers were just disposable when all the kids needed to do was put the caps back on."
17. "I'm a preschool teacher, and I once had a mom yell at me because she had to pick up her daughter who had a 102°F fever. She said it was inconvenient for her because she had 'a real job.'"
18. "A first grader in my school was struggling to learn to read. When it was mentioned to her parents, the mother said that he child 'didn’t have to know how to read because she would be wealthy and successful as an adult, and someone could read for her.'"
And lastly:
19. "I'm a driving instructor, and once I was waiting in the car for one student to meet with me for his lesson. In most cases, a parent would drive up with the student and meet me, and we'd talk a bit before the drive. After being 15 minutes late, a teenage boy came running around the corner and asked me if I was the teacher. He told me that his maid dropped him off a few blocks back and that he'd been trying to find me. During the lesson, I came to find out that he had never tried driving before and had no idea what to do."
"I asked him if he'd ever paid attention when his parents were driving, and he said that his parents never drove him anywhere as they were always busy. After the lesson, I called his parents to come get him, and his mom answered the phone and handed it to the dad who said they were at a golf course, and that he'd paid my company good money to 'just do my job.' I felt so bad for the kid that I drove him home. The maid was there and he ran up to her and hugged her like she was his mom. He was a nice kid, and I told the maid that she'd done a good job raising him, as it seemed like the parents were just too busy."
—Anonymous
Submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.