YourEmptyOrchestra:
This is a simple answer, but I find it completely unreasonable when parents email me demanding that I change their kid’s grade. Unfortunately, administration has no backbone and always gives into the parent’s request anyway, so instead of arguing I reply with “As long as you are comfortable with me giving your child a grade they didn’t earn, I can go ahead and change it. Let me know.” That throws them off a bit:
crocoducktaco:
Not quite the kind of unreasonable you’re asking about, but I had to leave a nanny job because they wanted me to lock their toddler into her room during nap time.
ASingultTear:
Walked in and was immediately told “she’s sick so she will probably throw up her spaghetti later. Oh and the cat is very pregnant, just give us a call if she starts giving birth. Ok, bye now!”The cat did not give birth that night, but the kid managed to throw up her spaghetti and cover her parent’ bedsheets in syrupy medication.
EroticCake:
Back when I was an early childhood teacher, there was one particularly wet and humid summer in Australia. As a result, there were lots of mosquitoes about. Now, we did our best with insect repellent, but it only does so much when they are literally everywhere. A parent one day asked me if I could “keep the mosquitoes away from [his] son” and “make sure he doesn’t get bitten” as though I was insect God-Emperor.
GlobbyDoodle:
Going to Whole Foods to buy her child lunch when all she packed was a box of dried spaghetti that she expected the school to cook for her child. The child couldn’t eat the regular school food because he was on a special diet.