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Speaker 1: Kids all over the country are finally back in school.

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Speaker 2: That can only mean one thing.

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Speaker 1: It's the return of annoying parents making teachers jobs way

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Speaker 1: harder than they need to be.

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Speaker 2: It's Brook and Jeffrey in the morning.

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Speaker 1: And look, I know you mean well when you emailed

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Speaker 1: your kids teacher asking if they can have an extra

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Speaker 1: recess to burn off the fourteen sugary cereals you fed

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Speaker 1: them that morning. But parents, have you ever stopped to think,

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Speaker 1: maybe you're the problem.

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Speaker 2: Maybe that was your fault.

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Speaker 1: Maybe new survey asked teachers from all fifty states for

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Speaker 1: the most unhinged requests parents have ever made.

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Speaker 2: Let's get right to the teacher responses.

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Speaker 1: This one says, I had a parent email me after

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Speaker 1: the first week of school. She said her child came

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Speaker 1: home crying and was completely lost in class.

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Speaker 3: Can be scary.

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Speaker 1: Why because I wrote on the chalkboard using my left

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Speaker 1: hand and it was too confusing for her right handed child.

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Speaker 1: So she asked if I could switch hands while teaching.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, let me just do that, let me

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Speaker 3: relearn how my brain works.

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Speaker 2: She does have a point, Oh does she? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Left handers get out.

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Speaker 1: Hitler famously left handed. So do you want to teach

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Speaker 1: the kid's Hitler style.

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Speaker 2: I guess that's up to you. It is a free country,

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Speaker 2: is that actually a fact? That's true?

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Speaker 1: Famously left handed, So careful what you're teaching your children anyway.

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Speaker 1: Another teacher said, I've been in education for over a decade,

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Speaker 1: and hands down, the craziest question I ever received is

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Speaker 1: when would be a good time for me to come

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Speaker 1: into school to breastfeed my son? I teach third grade?

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Brook, what grade is your son in?

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Speaker 3: Second?

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Speaker 2: Okay, so it's still acceptable at second grade?

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Speaker 3: But third grade, Mommy's coming during second recess? By the

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Speaker 3: buddy bed, There is no way.

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Speaker 2: This teacher wrote.

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Speaker 1: We had a family who just moved their child from

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Speaker 1: a small private school into a large public school, and

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Speaker 1: before the first day of fourth grade, they asked if

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Speaker 1: I could prepare their son a cup of hot tea

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Speaker 1: each morning when he arrives.

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Speaker 2: They had a lot of rude awakenings that year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, do they not do the tea? Doesn't happen in

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Speaker 3: public school? Jo, I know you didn't go to public school.

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Speaker 1: But.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, wonder the test scores are so much lower.

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Speaker 3: Now we ended up in the same place. Jeff so

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Speaker 3: I don't know how that private school worked out for you.

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Speaker 2: School, this teacher wrote.

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Speaker 1: One mother really thought she was making me a great

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Speaker 1: offer when she told me she'd pay forty bucks a

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Speaker 1: month if I would make her child lunch for.

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Speaker 2: Him every day and bring it to school.

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Speaker 1: She said, I know teachers are poor, so the extra

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Speaker 1: two dollars per meal could be really beneficial to me.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, it's so insulting to say that.

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Speaker 2: It is so in my god, but I mean take

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Speaker 2: the free money. Sure.

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Speaker 1: These are the most bizarre and unhinged requests that parents

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Speaker 1: have ever made to teachers at their schools.

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Speaker 3: Can I say mine?

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Speaker 2: Like you guys know this is from your mom to

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Speaker 2: your teacher.

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Speaker 3: Unhinged?

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Speaker 2: My mom did this.

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Speaker 4: I have extreme add and when I was in I

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Speaker 4: want to say fourth grade, I was playing Little league

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Speaker 4: baseball and I'm always distracted. We had to do a test,

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Speaker 4: so I had permission to get my ball and glove

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Speaker 4: and go outside and throw the ball against the building

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Speaker 4: a tennis ball and play.

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Speaker 2: Baseball and just myself for.

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Speaker 3: Fifteen minutes and miss all of class.

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Speaker 4: And no because then I had permission to stay late

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Speaker 4: after class because I needed more time. So when all

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Speaker 4: the time I needed on my test, it was great.

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Speaker 4: So I highly recommend you get lawyer is involved in

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Speaker 4: your children's lives. Well, my mom's always like, yeah, well,

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Speaker 4: you know, we know the eighty A Act, and I

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Speaker 4: know a lot of lawyers, so they'll do whatever you want.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure you're the only kid in school that

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Speaker 3: had add Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Jose was patient zero for eighty Yeah. This teacher wrote

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Speaker 1: in there's a lot of kids who need extra help

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Speaker 1: regulating their emotions in elementary school.

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Speaker 3: We're going back to Jose story.

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Speaker 1: There's a different one that says one mother told me

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Speaker 1: that when her son gets worked up, he likes to

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Speaker 1: be rubbed down with vanilla scented lotion, and said she

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Speaker 1: was sending a big bottle along with her kid.

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Speaker 4: Smell the vanilla. Just smell the vanilla.

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Speaker 1: The other kid take a shirt off to get on

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Speaker 1: the bag.

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Speaker 2: What do you do?

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Speaker 3: You don't do it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so bold.

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Speaker 1: Another one says one year, a dad actually told me,

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Speaker 1: you can't penalize my son for plagiarizing his science fare

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Speaker 1: project because I did that part for him.

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Speaker 2: So it's my fault.

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Speaker 3: It's my work, not his.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Dad, of the year.

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Speaker 1: Right, we're talking about the most bizarre and unhinged requests

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Speaker 1: that parents have ever made to their teachers.

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Speaker 3: And they are they're serving right now.

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Speaker 1: This one says I got an email from a mother saying,

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Speaker 1: will you please keep a roll of Sharman ultrasoft in

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Speaker 1: the classroom for my son so he could use it

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Speaker 1: for bathroom trips. He doesn't like the school issued toilet

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Speaker 1: papers that they have in the bathrooms.

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Speaker 3: Dude. I actually had this conversation with my kid last year.

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Speaker 4: He was in first grade, and he's like, I wait

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Speaker 4: till I get oh mom.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's he goes that toilet paper is rough.

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Speaker 4: And it's like it's like not even single, it's like

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Speaker 4: a quarter.

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Speaker 1: Again, this is public school, Jeff.

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Speaker 2: The right and a butler in every back.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Finally, the number one most ridiculous unhinged thing a parent

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Speaker 1: has ever said to a school faculty member. This one

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Speaker 1: says I had a freshman's dad complained to the principle

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Speaker 1: about me. He said, it was unacceptable for me to

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Speaker 1: be that heavily pregnant while at school because it reminds

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Speaker 1: all the young male students of what I had been

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Speaker 1: doing to make that happen.

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Speaker 4: Oh, this isn't the grossest projection. You are the only

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Speaker 4: one thing pregnant woman and think that.

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Speaker 3: It is so rose like? How'd she get there?

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Speaker 1: Those were the craziest things parents have ever said to

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Speaker 1: their kids teachers. That was now, mom and dads, you

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Speaker 1: have something to aspire to in the upcoming calendar years.

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Speaker 3: Dude, I know we're going to get so many texts

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Speaker 3: from teachers that are listening.

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Speaker 1: To no.

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Speaker 2: Good one excident seventy five nine two. Your phone TAP's

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Speaker 2: coming up right after

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Speaker 3: This freaking Jeffrey in the morning.