27 of the Dumbest Reasons Parents Demanded A Parent-Teacher Conference

There are many valid reasons to call your child’s teacher. Blaming them for making your son gay, however, isn’t one of them. 

That said, one Redditor, who once worked as an assistant guidance counselor, still experienced such an incident. “We had a furious parent call us several times and accuse us of turning her son gay,” they recalled of the communications concerning a pupil, who just so happened to be “cutting a swath through the school’s female population.” The parents only stopped their administrative crusade when their son “got a classmate pregnant.”

Of course, plenty of other clueless parents have taken a teacher’s phone number for granted and demanded parent-teacher conferences over complaints about things as ridiculous as Persian flute music, colored bras and vegetarianism.