I'm going to start keeping a record of the most outlandish parent requests and why.

I've been teaching for about 5 years at a middle school. Most of my colleagues are veteran teachers. I am currently doing graveyard shifts on weekends at a local hospital as well as teaching to supplement costs of moving to a new place with my fiance.<br><br>Parent calls me Monday morning and is extremely irate that I haven't graded an assignment for her child. The grades were due Friday, assignment was due Thursday. She is extremely irate even though her kid turned it in 6 hours before the due date. I explained to her I was working and couldn't reasonably be expected to grade assignments. She told me to "get a better job if I couldn't keep up". I told her that I would get to it when I had time.<br><br>She called back less than 24 hours later, asking if I had graded it and why I was taking so long. I explained to her, again, that I have a second job and that it may be a couple of days before I get to everything. I control my temper and explain it is not at the top of my list of things to do at the moment. She says "I don't care, it needs to be graded". I politely tell her that it is in the queue behind assignments I need to grade for the upcoming week. We go back and forth for a few minutes, and she tells me "I pay your salary, get to it". I am starting to lose my cool, but explain to her again that my time is limited and there are other priorities.<br><br>At this point, I am extremely incensed. I write my union rep and tell him about the situation. He tells me to start documenting and keeping a record of any irrational calls from parents along with the reasoning for the calls. I ask if I should include emails too, and he says yes. He also suggests that I start documentingpromise to help me navigate the waters if this ever gets to the point of an progressBarion or lawsuit or something.