I don't believe that parents are the issue, either. Oh I can say that I am probably not their favorite parent by any means. I would not say that I am a helicopter parent, but I have gone to school to make them get down to the bottom of an issue when they like to say, we don't care who started it, you're both in trouble. Three times they have issued a suspension to my daughter that I did not think was fair. Twice she deserved what she got. The three times that they just issued her a suspension called and apologized and recanted the suspension when learning the true issue in the classroom. There are a few great kids who while are intimidated and don't want bullies to start bullying them they will come in after class and tell the truth about things that happen in the classroom. I have caught teachers lying and while I know they are human but that is unacceptable. I dislike the remark about sitting on the couch eating potato chips, also. I am a single mom and had to work two jobs to make ends meet and provide for my kids. i did however miss very few special events at school. I supported every fund raiser, and volunteered when I could. I did not however attend PTO meetings, but I wasn't home eating potato chips either. That suggest a slothen laziness and I am far from that. My daughter has had some awesome, awesome, administrators and teachers, but their is always a couple bad apples even in a group of teachers. I had one teacher who did not believe in ADHD, and told me it was always in boys and not girls. My request was that she be placed in the front of the classroom, somewhere in the front row. She moved her to the back by the hallway inside the classroom, to prove her point that she didn't have ADHD. I went to the school for treats for something and found her talking to someone outside in the hallway. This was of dealing with the kids who have been diagnosed with adhd, put them all in the back of the room, and get them as far away from her as she could, as long as they were distracted and she didn't have to deal with them. Was so not a good year.