u/BlackOrre

It's a simple story. Student doesn't bother to show up to school and fails every class. Student will not graduate. Everyone has warned this student's parents that this will happen if she isn't in class and turning in work.

Student and family proceeds to go to graduation and act like she's graduating. As in she was in a cap and gown. We didn't provide those to her because, again, she didn't graduate. She decided to buy or borrow those on her own accord. Speaking of accord, she also bought graduation stoles and cords. We certainly didn't provide those considering she was an awful student.

Student proceeds to sit down in the chairs dedicated to graduating students. The entire faculty is there because we are required to arrive there earlier than students. All of us look at her like she's nuts. The Dean of Students walks over and tells her that she can't sit there, only with the audience because, again, this area is for graduating students and school faculty.

The parents are totally missing the point that their daughter failed and isn't graduating. They are far more concerned about watching her walk. I think her mother said, "Can't you just let her walk?"

After repeatedly saying she can't walk because this is for graduating seniors, an argument broke out. It's the usual "My tuition pays your salary" bullshit we've heard before. They all got kicked out.

Like, I have such a massive headache from this moment, and I wasn't even involved. I was complaining about having to remove posters off the walls because the school is getting repainted. In all my years of teaching, I have never seen something this stupid happen.

I seriously want to know if anyone else had to put up with this kind of bullshit. Surely mine couldn't have been the only one out there.