u/BaronessF

It's amazing when it happens....a student skipped my class (test today!) and lied to his mother's face. Told her he was there, and wrote the test. Not true. He walked in, and walked right back out before class started. I emailed home, and his mother asked me to let him take the test next week, and to give him a zero! She wants him to actually have to write the test he skipped, and she thinks the punishment should still be a zero on the test. I could hug her. She's dealing with the lying at home. His long weekend is going to be very, very sad for him.

I love it when parents have my back!

This morning a student announced in class that when he wrote his suicide note later, he would name me as the cause. I took him out into the hallway for a very tense conversation, where I explained (clearly, in the mom/teacher voice I am proud of) that it was incredibly rude, disrespectful, and inappropriate.

I don't care if it was a joke. I don't care if he thought he was being funny. His parents response? They laughed and said "Oh, he says stuff all the time for reactions. Just ignore him."

EDIT: I should have been clear in my post. He was not at all serious. Yes, I reported it. He was trying to be funny in front of his buddies. I had just given a big assignment in our Shakespeare unit, and this was his response to that. My frustration was with the idea that telling a teacher she is a reason to kill himself was "a joke".

IMPORTANT: Student is not in danger. I am not in danger. I do not need "Reddit Care" to contact me.