so angry with a parent..

and I think I was a bit harsh with the things I said to her. Sigh. Should have prayed before speaking.

Son cheated during test today. He said the mum knew that he was going to cheat but he still cheated anyway. I called the mum, spoke to her nicely about how important character development is and how that is more important than the score he gets for the test. The mum said that he is not the only one in the class who cheated. She said that she has heard from the few students how they cheated before too. I know that that is highly impossible but she kept saying that they told her that they cheated. I asked for names but she didnt want to give names. Finally, after much grilling, I managed to get her to admit that she actually heard from her son about the cheating cases and not from the students themselves. That brought her credibility right to the ground. She implied that the reason why the children cheated was because I was pushing them too hard and that she had spoken to some parents and they think so too (like how would I believe her now)? She said she is not the type to go to the HODs and Principal because she believes that she prefers to go to the teacher directly (I see that as a threat). I was very pissed then. I told her that if she can come down, we can talk, discuss and investigate this in front of the Principal. She said she's busy and that I can handle and punish her son accordingly if he has really cheated and that I should carry out some investigation about the previous students who cheated.

???????? going to let go of this case for now and just get back my sanity. It's hard to be gentle and kind in speech when I talk to parents like that!
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