Dad swears at teacher for overstepping the line
A father snapped at a teacher after she insisted he invite all the students in her class to his son’s birthday.
Taking to Reddit, the father asked if he took it too far by swearing at the teacher who kept pestering him to invite the 24 children instead of only nine to his son’s sixth birthday party.
He said he explained to the teacher that he could not host 24 children and their parents and it was his choice to do whatever he wanted in his house.
“I get a call from my son’s teacher and she tells me that she understands he is having a birthday party and that he invited a few of his friends from class, but not everyone,” the post begins.
“I said yeah, there are a few kids in there that he has problems with and also I don't think we can really handle hosting 24 kids and their parents.
“She then tells me that there is a rule that if any kids in the class are invited that all kids in the class are invited.
“I told her it is an event off school hours on private property in my home. She can no more tell me what I do there and who I can and can't invite anymore than I can decide who is invited to her Thanksgiving dinner.”
The teacher however kept insisting the rule was in place to stop kids from getting their feelings hurt to which the father then asked if he should invite the students from his son’s other classes.
“She then said ‘He is in my class. He is under my supervision. This is my rule’.
“I then told her that my son is only under her supervision while he is in class. I am the one throwing the party, and she doesn't get to make rules for my house or me. She then said if it involves her class, she does.”
The pair went back and forth on the touchy subject before the father snapped and told her to go f**k herself.
“I said, ‘Lady, it's pretty clear that you're too used to bossing around kids who have to listen to you and that you don't seem to understand that your little fiefdom ends at the end of the school day and doesn't go further than schoolhouse gates. I am not a 6 year old in your class. I'm a 38 year old union electrician planning a private event in my own home, off school hours. If you think you're the one to make the rules for me, in my home on which I pay the mortgage on, you can go f**k yourself and there isn't a goddamn thing you can do about it. She then kind of stammered and I ended the call.”
The husband said that his wife agreed that the teacher had no business telling them who to invite to their home but that he may have taken it a step too far for swearing at her.
He did confess that he wished that he didn’t swear at the teacher but stood firm on his decision that the teacher had no right to do what she did.
Reddit users sided with the father who said the teacher overstepped the mark by getting involved in a matter that did not involve her.
“The gall of this woman is laughable and her thought process simply defies logic,” someone wrote.
“She was out of line for calling you in the first place, and then had the audacity to double down and insist that literally anything that involves students in her class is her business. Out-freaking-rageous! Tell the principal, and if you aren't satisfied with that result, call up the superintendent's office,” another comment read.
“This teacher got out of her lane and you forced her a** back into it. Exactly what you should have done. NO ONE gets to tell you who to have at your own damn house. Frankly I would be talking to her supervisor as well. That is not ok, and she has OBVIOUSLY gotten away with this before,” someone else wrote.
“Unless she's paying for the party she has ZERO say,” another commented.
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