I was a TA in a kindergarten classroom and had reminded this little kid(5M) in April (over halfway through the school year) about our rule that we only have healthy snacks at snack time. He started whining and crying about how his mom lets him have cookies whenever he wants.

Anyway, the teacher steps in and mentions that he has a delicious looking apple in his lunch bag. He then gets up, throws a chair and begins to flip tables and tear the class apart while telling the teacher his mom is going to bring a gun and shoot her.

At this moment a threat has been issued so we bring in the principal. She gets there and begins an effort to talk the student down to no avail. The mother is then called… No answer. Of course. So we send this kid with the principal and go about our day. After school is over the teacher, principal and I start putting together an email to the parent.

I get to school the next day and the teacher shows me the response. The first line read “Why didn’t you just let him have the cookie?!” and it went on to say that “you as educators are not doing our job if her child is getting as angry as he is. It is our job to keep him from getting mad and we failed at it today.”

That day he came in and told us that mommy bought him a new Lego set…