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[pride_of_erin]

I know that getting into teaching means I'm going to have to deal with idiotic parents, but stories like the following just take the bloody cake:

(Copied from new_religion's comment in customers_suck)
I was criticized for teaching German Mythology involving 'Goblins' or Gnomes that come out at night and help craftsman with their labor while they are asleep, and the legend of Siegfried which involves Dragons, Magic and Sword and Sorcery type stuff. They are both well-known German legends that every schoolchild in Germany would have heard about, but Chrstian parents got together and complained to the Superintendent that I was teaching about 'witchcraft' and 'evil'. Also, they objected to my MYspace account, which unfortuntately my students foudn out about, which contained pics of me in an Adam Ant pirate costume, and had references to me being a Wiccan and a george-Bush hater.

I was unfortunately asked to resign

I mean seriously, what the ever-loving, ass-bleeding fuck? Then of course, there was the teacher who had a parent make an official complaint to the school board, because said parent saw him drinking in a bar on a Saturday night. OMG!!! He was doing something perfectly legal, on his own time, without a single child present! That's so wrong! Teachers aren't human beings with lives of their own - they live at the school and think Godly, child-friendly thoughts all the time!!!111!!!
/sarcasm.

Sheesh, let's hope none of my future students' parents find out about my fannish tendencies or any other 'unsavoury' qualities. I'm sure I'm going to end up hearing all of the following at least once during my career:

"She writes porn! Obviously, being such a morally bankrupt character, she will talk about it at work and our pweshush chyyyldrun will find out about dirty things, like OMG - sex!"

"She supports them queers! ZOMG, we can't let her teach or our baaaaybeees will catch teh ghey!! Oh noes!!!111!ONE!!!"

"She's takes anti-depressants! How could they let a PSYCHOPATH teach our kids! She'll probably hit them!!!"

"She has a very mild case of Asperger's Syndrome!" *Once they find out what that is* "WTF?! If she's so socially retarded, why's she's working with children! They won't learn to socialise properly and end up with no friends! Think of the children, won't somebody please think of the children!!!!"

"She's a WITCH!!!!! Clearly, she will teach our baybees to worship Satan - BURN HER!!!!" (I could try explaining that I'm actually a Christian witch, but such an impossible and blasphemous concept would no doubt make their tiny heads explode).

Yes. By the standards of the average right-wing conservative, I'm an an incredibly nefarious character - I mean, would you let such a dangerous individual near your children? \m/ *Hisssssss!* \m/

Ugh, the stupid - it burns!