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Story 5 is infuriating. Those investigators who ignored 9 prior calls should go to prison for gross negligence

My dad killed and ate my pet rabbit as a kid but wow eating the class pet is another level, truly evil...

Uncle is a high school teacher. Had one student who struggled to read. I'm not talking about like maybe a grade level or two behind, I mean the kid could not read much at all. In a parent teacher conference it came up and the parents said "he won't need to read in the NBA. His agents will do all that crap for him." Uncle was stunned.

I've never had a trashy parent. But I am worried about one of my 3rd-graders. The kid is only 8 years old, morbidly obese, swears like a sailor at the end of every sentence, regularly threatens to beat up the other kids when he doesn't get his way, never listens to me, breaks my stuff, etc. Dear Lord, I wonder what kind of home life he has if he thinks this is an okay way of acting?

That kid forced by his mom to steal was just sad.

I've seen more than one kid with obvious signs of abuse, reported it to CPS (like I'm supposed to do), as well as notify administration of what I believe is happen, even had other kids making reports, only to get blown off by CPS and administrators as being "overly dramatic." Our system is really broken and absolutely does as little as it can get away with, much to the detriment of the kids.

I reported a situation to the school principal because I'm legally supposed to, and could get fired if I don't report situations where I believe something inappropriate is going on. The principal literally showed up and yelled at me in front of the entire class of kids, then had the nerve to call me unprofessional when I reported him to the district. I don't work for that school, anymore, but neither does that principal.

She didn't sell the computer because of "poverty" she sold the computer because she prioritizes everything over her kid. I know a chick like this. She has three kids, and the family refuses to buy any expensive electronics or gifts because she will sell them or the kids will break them. Her son had an Xbox that grandma bought, she sold it... So while she's always got cigarette and alcohol money. Is always going out with different men, and has nice stuff...her kids have nothing. It's really sad.

i love how bro is using pepsi man the videogame, footage whilst talking about child abuse

I really hope the girls from story #2 and #5 are doing better. I hope the best for the two of them.

One of the kids my cousin worked with (he's a TA) was special needs and his mom did, as far as I can tell, next to nothing, wouldn't take him for a haircut, wouldn't buy him new uniform or any clothes, the teachers and TA's brought in their kids hand me downs for him to wear. The family wasn't poor and she wasn't an addict or cheap, she just...never did it and/or didn't see it as an issue. Kid told my cousin that his dream was to have a school jacket like the other kids. Mom never bought one

Story 5 is why sometimes break some protocols "are ok". You don't had to follow some rules when kids safe and future is at the stakes. If the stupid principal could see through, then holding that call will be much better to bait the mother into meeting the investigator too. Thanks to that stupid principal, the kids must be dead by now. This is the reason why been violent against entitled people is the best, because there is not "the better way" or the high moral way as they never learn. They only learn when you literally beat the crap out of them regularly for the trash they put others and subject them to that. Even the one from the computer is clear the mother abuse the child and also "sell the $200 pc"... because she can't "afford it"... yet has a freaking I-phone. Something tells me either she sell it for paid or has another "addiction" too.

Hats off to the man who reassembled that guys nose for taking a step towards his mother. Seriously, an absolute legend

These poor kids are so abused... This is heart breaking

This makes me EXTREMELY thankful for the parents I have. Not perfect, but good. We didn't have much, but we weren't beaten, starved or abused by any stretch of the imagination.

Regarding story 25 My mum was being assessed for her disability (minor mobility and major sight loss) and one of the questions was could she use the toilet without assistance. mum joked that you don’t need to see the toilet to use it in response the nurse told her she had a 17 year old blind man in for assessment and his mum still took him to the toilet, his ONLY issue was sight loss. We need more disabled people in the public eye to dispel the myth of has a disability = can’t do anything

“All kids deserve parents, but not all parents deserve kids”

honestly, using pepsi man as a background was amazing

I was a Substitute Teacher in a large city. All of the kids were on free breakfast and lunch in the schools where I subbed. That meant they didn't eat much on the weekends. I have three students that stand out in a sea of poverty and adult addiction issues. 1.A family of Hispanic brothers, all of them 2 or 3 grades below their age, because they didn't come to school enough to pass the grade. I had them in a Life Skills class, where we discuss and learn how to do things MOST parents teach their children. I thought it would be a good thing to discuss what to do if their guardians didn't come home one day. I'm thinking car accident. The family of brothers blurted out: we call 'a list of family members' when dad gets arrested in bar fights. One of the boys was legally blind and needed special glasses to see to read. The school district paid to get this boy those glasses, and the foolishly let the boy take them home. The dad snatched them off the boys face and said he could have them at school only! The dad got arrested that night, and the boy never saw the glasses again. I was subbing with the blind brother when city Police showed up to do a Say No to Drugs presentation. The kids were tasked with writing down statements from the chalk board, but the blind brother was just staring into space. The cops were getting frustrated, so I sat beside the boy, and told him what to write. He could see well enough to write block letters, but not well enough to read the chalk board or the printed page. 2. A girl at the same school, was in 5th grade, and she was responsible in getting her entire family out of bed, and off to work [4 adults, if I remember]. This girl also had to ride the Public City bus home, because none of the school buses drove to her neighborhood. I remember one day after school and the girl was bawling: she forgot to get a dime from her mom to ride the bus home. The teacher gave her a quarter. 3. Same school, in their behavioral problems class: one of the boys in the class had brain damage from his father trying to drown him in the bath tub.

That first teacher and i haven't made it through the rest of the video yet but all the teachers im sure are literal angels, Helping kids out with hygiene essentials +100

man that little kid with the cigarret smell hit me the most, as a smoker i always try to be aware of any child nearby if i go for a smoke, multiple times where im walking down the street smoking and i see a parent with their kid walking towards me ill straight up hold the smoke, place the cigarret as far away from the kid as possible usually by switching hands, ive had a family member die from throat cancer because of it and i accept the consequences it might have on me, but i will never make a child pay for my mistakes as an adult

sometimes you just can see how an 8yo kid is more grown up than a 28yo parent

Back in year 7 I was stabbed in the forearm with a pen just out of the blue one day by this girl in my class and the teacher didn't seem too bothered my mum went ballistic on the principal about and the only punishment the girl got was writing an apology letter and the next day she bragged to me about how my mum tried to get her kicked out of school and failed to do so.

it boils me to the core when parents/teachers tell children they can't do anything. I was raides like that and I'm still struggling with myself-

3:00 that’s so sad I was hoping to the store was going to end with the children being taken away by CPS with the fact that this neglectful and rude mom got to leave with these two children, and a child with disabilities had to live with this person is heartbreaking

My childhood wasn't perfect but damn this made me grateful for my parents

Have a friend who’s mother used to work as a regional superintendent. I don’t know the actual specifics on how this came to be or the terminology behind it. Basically, the child never showed for school when they were 5. The parents claimed they were homeschooling. About 3 years later they looked into it and saw no records of any home schooling or something. So they investigated. They got the dcf involved and they found that the child was legit feral and living in a barn. The kid couldn’t speak a word of English and was so malnourished it was a “miracle” she was still alive. This was the 90’s and once again, I’m not sure about the specifics or the process behind how it all got figured out but it’s seriously disturbing what some people do to their kids.

"Anything my child owns is actually owned by me (since my child is also my property)". Yes, that is a very familiar principle of life, I was raised like that, and I think it is a cultural thing; that is how family normally works in my country. Oh, and this... "Parents told the kids they can't do anything"... It is very troubling, but I want to believe they got this from their parents because they were sight impaired. I want to believe not every kid has to go through this when they are young. I was brought up like this for no other reason than being a child.

4:32 I would had forced that mom you give her back that jacket or ima call the cops or cps

My egg donor was a trashy parent. My little sister was behind because she couldn’t read, our attendance was atrocious due to the fact that she would hold us back intentionally making us miss the bus, and we we’re very unhealthy living off of canned veggies and other instant foods. When we did eat properly another family member would feed us laxatives so we wouldn’t gain weight. Yeah we all ended with an ED and unhealthy coping mechanisms.

*Every child deserves loving parents BUT not everyone should have children!* Also Ohmygosh *Pepsi man gameplay! :O*

Out of all background games, you pick Pepsi man. Bravo my good sir.

The school literally offered to take care of the special needs kid for that one mom and she got angry?? Is she actually trying to be a bad mom??

Pepsi man!

She had a violent German shepard that lived outside. He wasn't chained and the mail wouldn't deliver there. The dog would attack anyone that would come near the house. I warned her multiple times that dog was going to get someone. The dog got hold of a 9 year old kid walking home. It mauled him to pieces. He survived and the dog was put down. No joke, she went and adopted another dog. As for the comment on poor parents. Let me tell you there is trashy poor and honorable poor. My grandparents were honorable, poor, kind farmers. Hardworking people with only a 3rd grade education.

"The principal insisted we call home and report our findings" That my friend is how the abuse gets worse. I remember begging my counselor to call my dad and not my mom after finally opening up about abuse but she called my mom anyway. Just report it and don't stop reporting it until someone finally does something!!!!!

P E P S I M A N !!!!!

Number 5 Is sad, the worst part is the ending, the investigators only showed up at the last second

19:40 This breaks my heart on so many levels. Because I know this happens and it could have been me or any of the now amazing adults I grew up with. I never let myself forget that I am incredibly lucky to have had parents who never once told me I couldn't do something as simple as live my life and be happy just because I was blind. They never told me I was lesser and always did their damnedest to support and help me learn and find work arounds when something wasn't easily found, such as braille board games. My parents spent hours using a braille labeler to braille everything from Candy Land to Monopoly Junior for me. It's because of my parents that I was able to make it through college on scholarships and am now 4 years into my career as a programmer. Because when I had bad days of feeling like the world was against me because I can't see, they reminded me that just because I may have to find work arounds and some things aren't quite within my wheelhouse, I'm not useless and my input matters.

“My Parents Fried The Rabbit And We Ate It For Dinner” Pepsi Man In The Background: “OH YEAHHH”

I had cps called on me because "your kids said you don't have internet or tv services at your house" the teacher literally said that kids need both. I haven't had a tv in 15 years and use my cell phone for a hot spot. Teacher still to this day thinks it's abuse

Stories like these are why I think people should need a license to have kids >~>

The weirdest thing I personally witnessed, was a parent trying to drive over one of those street crossing guardians that pull out stop signs and help children cross. They only stopped when that person was completely on their hood and 3 other teachers surrounded the car

story 25... i know how it feels to have a teacher call you worthless in front of your face THOSE TYPES OF THEACHERS SHOULD BE FIRED

this is really embarrassing for the parents but the pepsi man collect da missing pepsi cans made my day 😎

I love how you're playing Pepsi Man in the background

14:43 addicted to math ?!?!?!? Damn I dint know that I'm addicted on that drug too :(

It infuriates me on WHY some women have kids and treat them worse than a dog. Wishing everyone a great Thursday and prayers for all who need it.

All kids deserve parents, but not all parents deserve kids.

came for reddit stayed for pepsi man

Story 3 is just PURE EVIL, as a rabbit owner I could feel my heart drop to the ground when I heard the ending! Animals such as rabbits should NEVER be kept as a class pets (tbh, I’m against the idea of class pets in general) for that is borderline abuse, but it makes it worse that the poor bunny went home with a new kid every weekend, the amount of stress the little rabbit would go under would be enough to kill it alone. And when the school KNEW that that kids home life was awful, they still sent the rabbit there. And that evil family ate the rabbit in the end, most likely traumatizing the kid forever. Class pets should not exist, it is just abuse. I couldn’t ever imagine my fur-babies getting eaten.

I never knew there was a Pepsi game

(for some reason story with rabbit. I picture it going) Teacher: Why did you cook the class rabbit? Mom: We werent going to eat him raw. We're not savages.

Man, and here I thought some of the shit parents a friend has to deal with as a foster parent we’re bad. Also, some of the parents she met with when she subbed for one of her foster kids’ history class. Kid was 15 and the bullies in school tried every trick they could think of to tick my friend off or get her to quit. Friend’s a retired decorated war vet, battled hardened, and these little baby Weiner Havers learned real quick not to mess with her. When a student brought up that none of them had ever had sex ed, the school didn’t have a teacher for whatever reason, friend taught the kids, explaining it all to them and telling some of the kids that being gay or ace or whatever was perfectly fine and they were valid as were their feelings. Two separate kids told her that their parents threatened to beat them and throw them out of the house if they came out as gay. One was a girl the other a boy. Friend told them to call their parents and tell them the truth as both were gay and the girl had a secret gf for the last 3 years. Both the girl’s dad and the boy’s mom cussed and screamed at them until friend intervened, telling them that if they were going ti beat and disown their own children for something as stupid as being gay she would get cps involved and they would loose all their kids. Both parents turned up at school no more than 20 minutes later and proceeded to continue their tirade at friend in front of her class of kids. Needless to say they both got decked when they tried to get physical with her and police were called. Kids were put into foster care WITH friend as their foster mom. Jokes on the parents

I am from Canada and I also live in the Rural area of Ontario. The winters can get VERY cold and VERY snowy here and what the teachers did was an incredible nice thing for the child but the mom is just being rude. If she wanted a coat then she could have bought one from Value Village. (Value Village is a donation store)

The worst part about most of these is that nothing can be done because most of society has literally no plan for when completely irresponsible people have children. In the best case scenario, after years of abuse or neglect, the kids get put in a foster system that's just gonna mess them up in another way. Even if it's reported to the authorities, the process is so inefficient that the truly horrible parents have plenty of opportunity to either hide evidence or just up and leave to another town, and no one will go look for them.

How did I misread "Parent" as "Student" for over a week straight before I finally clicked on the video?

Teacher: the pet bunny isn't coming back Class: did he get sick?! What happened *Later at Lunch time* *Little Timmie munching on a bunny leg* Timmie best friend: oh I love porkchops Little Timmie: It ain't porkchomp it's bunny, want some bunny?!

In high school during a grade 12 trip to Spain some of the parents were allowed to come if they paid for themselves. Of course we were all 17-18 and of legal age to drink in Spain so before we went to the bar we were told to never, ever accept drinks from people at the bar. Especially from men because apparently in some instances that's considered an automatic "you're coming home with me." Of course, the one girls mom was accepting drinks from this one dude all night. Eventually he told her it's time to leave and her drunk ass was going to go with him until she realized "oh yeah, I'm on a school trip." She argued with the dude for at least 15 minutes and the teachers went to back her up. Needless to say, dude walked away pissed beyond belief, the girl was pure red with embarrassment with her mom's behavior, and the teachers gave this woman immense shit for not following a simple rule.

this randomly popped up on my reccomened. Also awesome video very entertaining

My daughter was beat up in school by another girl after months of bullying by the same girl. My daughter warned the teachers and principal that she was going to get beat up. Their answer was to chaperone my daughter, but they didn't. I pulled my daughter out of that school and she was learning online. I would have gladly gone into the school and beat up the bully, her mom, the teacher and the principal. These people are idiots

Every child deserves a parent, but not every parent deserves a child.

15:08 “The mom responds by saying the school is run by-“ *Old Spice ad comes on*

His nose disapeared😂😂😂

A few years ago there was this popular girl at my school who only wore a bra and really really short shorts. There were many girls there who would only wear tank tops and pants or shorts, but only a few only cane to school with a bra as a top. Very trashy indeed, I don’t know if they were poor or not but oh come on you can get an actual t-shirt for $2 there is no excuse to only wear a bra to school no other top.

We need a parenting license oh god

i hate how many say they're in poverty but they obviously use a lot of money on themselves

Shout out to all the terrible parents out there! They are doing their job of making sure the psychiatry profession will prosper for years to come

Why did he do a southern accent of the parent was English. :(

you know, i never realized until now how graphically nice pepsiman is for a ps1 game

Sad stories being told about child abuse and struggle Pepsi Man plays in the background

The backround got me like: PEPSI MAAAANNN

Also in the background in one part the guy is in a trash can 😂

Ah yes love that game! (The background one)

Story 22 was satisfying because the angry dude got falcon punched for attempting to attack OP’s mom

Omg I need to text my parents thanking them for only being a little crazy.

The girl with the cath and diapers is a bs story because a teacher is obligated by law to call CPS when abuse or neglect is suspected of a child. It's not an option to call, it's the law for teachers and other professions such as doctors, nurses, educators, etc

Some of these aren’t “trashy”, just sad

I’m starting to get motion sickness from the Pepsi man gameplay.

"His mom was never home and we'll know to be addicted to math and will sell herself"

At this point Parents should have some kind of license to have kids , other wise they outcome will be very bad most of the times .

I find it so sad that most of these stories have to do with alcohol, drugs, or poverty

"She complained about how rent was hard but always had fresh nails done monthly"

i need that pepsi man game in the background it’s an unwritten rule about my life if there’s pepsi man i must have

The first story, I remember this story before and there are minor update. The redditor have to tell her class that if they need some items,they could ask in private. I have might remember on the kid but I could might remember, the kid told her the mom isn't happy.

you know its its gonna be a good video when pepsi man is playing in the backround

I had no idea there were that many horrible people in the world.

Story 11: Are you sure you didnt mean the us, cause that is one of the most southern accents,I've ever heard

This Pepsi game looks like a fever dream

These videos I like.. I listen to the story and watch the game in the background.

These children deserve better.

All children deserve parents, tons of parents don't deserve children. More often than not children's struggles and problems are a result of bad parenting

This barely makes the cut, but my mom works in a special school in my city for kids who have such severe problems that even special ed can’t take care of them. Not severe autism or anything like that, behavioral issues. Anyway, when my mom gave her whole classroom small gifts for Christmas, it was something like a granola bar and some fruit snacks, one of the kids said “this is the best Christmas ever!” The neglect kids in my community face is terrible.

Bro really did an American accent for a British story

I literally didn’t even know there was a game for Pepsi man

Both Addicted to math and solving differential equations in front of kids 😲😲😲

im drinking dr pepper while watching this man play a pepsi man game

There's a special place in hell for people like some of these parents.

I don't know if I want to cry, get mad, or laugh at story 3.