"Teachers Are Quitting Because of This BS" — Woman Blasts Careless Parents in Viral Rant

A woman who is fed up with parents complaining about teachers on social media blasted commenters on a teacher's social media post.

Jade Star (@j4desgallery) posted a viral media PSA on TikTok sharing her reaction to parents who don't actively participate in their children's education.

In a text overlay for the video she writes: "IT'S NOT THE TEACHERS, IT'S Y'ALL!!!!" where she pointed out how numerous parents were quick to proverbially jump down a teacher's throat after the teacher shared her method of providing reminders to parents to check their child's backpacks for any assignments or notices.

Jade thought that parents were focusing their outrage on the wrong thing, stating that more folks need to take an active role in ensuring their children are exceeding in school.

"I just saw a video of a schoolteacher trying to come up with different way[s] for parents to be reminded to check their child's book bag because apparently, motherf-----s don't be doing that," she says at the start of her video.

She goes on to say: "So she decided to make like little reminder bracelets where you basically just put a little bracelet on there and they get home ... and when your parents sees you they're like oh what is that so they can know like ...something like picture day is tomorrow ... so I think that's a f------ fantastic idea."

However, the TikToker points out, not every single parent feels the same way, and she incredulously lambasts some parents who, in the comments section of the particular video she's referencing, said that they didn't want teachers "attaching" anything to their children: "Why the f--- are elder Gen Z and late millennial parents so f------- annoying?"

"And then there's motherf-----s in the comments saying oh well I'm a teacher and I sent soiled clothes home in the kids' book bag once and I told them to remind their parent that they have p---- clothes in they bag, and they came to school the next day with the p---- clothes in they bag," she added, highlighting another difficulty teachers say that they deal with when it comes to reminding parents to check their children's backpacks.

"You're telling me a bracelet that says your child soiled themselves please remove the s---, stinky, clothes out of they book bag before they f------ show up here tomorrow, wouldn't be motherf------ helpful?" she argues, commenting on the lunacy of some of the hills that some people choose to die on.

What's worse, she says, is that these same parents who complain about not being cognizant of what's going on in their child's classroom or will have choice words for some teachers, tend to also be the same parents who don't display an active interest in their kids' education.

"Stay f------ complaining but won't check the kids' book bag, won't remind the kids to tell them to check they book bag, won't check the book bag to see if they got homework, this is an everyday motherf------ thing, won't do s--- but f------ complain. Shut up!" she shouts into the camera, exasperated with the behavior of this particular subset of parents.

Judging from the comments left in response to Jade's video, there were a lot of folks who agreed with her stance.

"Millennial parents are honestly lazy," one person wrote, stating that there's a certain lassitude they believe has become a trademark of an entire generation of parents.

However, there was another user on the application who wrote that they thought that this is a common trait; you know you've gotten older and presumably wiser once you understand that the real "craziness" that's involved with schooling comes from parents who make the job unnecessarily difficult: "Growing up realizing it's not the kids, it's the parents is crazy."

What do you think? Have you noticed there are a lot of parents who should be taking a more active approach in their child's education and they don't make it a habit to look through their kids' backpacks to see what they're bringing home?