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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pokinfun" data-source="post: 2914267" data-attributes="member: 28113">I think this needs to be said: As a teacher, one of the first things we learn is when we interact with an irate parent, they are not yelling at you. Most of the time the parent is yelling at their teacher, from their youth. Parents who show up and make demands, complainants, and claim the world is against their child is a helicopter parent or has issues from their own childhood. They did not have a good a experience in school and they are going to get even for their treatment. These types of parents do not care about their child's situation, they only use their child as an excuse to make themselves feel better.I am not saying this is the case in this situation, but it could be a contributing factor. The need to pay for a private school and then go in and yell at the staff, without making a change of schools tells me something about what has actually occurred in this situation. Combined with a history of making demands in the same school, which the child is in by choice reinforces the idea that it may not be about the child at all. After all, why not just move your child to another school, because he is already getting what he wants. He is paying to be able to get even for some unresolved issues form his own childhood. His child's education is an opportunity to feel like a man.</blockquote>