Stories like this make my blood boil. I hate parents that don't teach their children to respect property that doesn't directly belong to them. I say "directly" because moo would say that everything in the office was paid for by her tax money, and therefore it is perfectly acceptable for her brats to trash the place. Wrong, I'm a tax payer and I don't like to see things wasted!!
Another thing that I find annoying about this story is that the office staff sat back and allowed the brats to trash the place. This is because many people who work in the school system are sooooo afraid of pissing off the parents, and causing problems with them. I'm not one of those people, and I hate to watch my namby pamby coworkers cater to these swine. If a parunt is in my classroom for a conference, party, or whatever and their child, or the extra children they usually bring with them, is acting up I will correct them if the parent doesn't. In most cases he parent then becomes embarrassed and reinforces me. I also don't let the parent leave until their child has cleaned up whatever mess they have made. I don't care who I piss off! Whatever happened to the basic principle of being responsible for one's actions?
I don't mean to go on, but on Friday a famblie with 8 unruley children visited our school to register their oldest, who happened to be 8! (Just imagine being in pig for 8 years of your life like this moo!) Anyway these parents let the kids run all over the school, assuming that the rest of us would watch them. Several of them were litterally climbing up the sides of the door jams. No one in the office said a thing to them. I could have cared less if they were chewing on electrical wires, kids this bad are expendable. One of the girl sprog entered my classroom and I told her she needed to go find her mommy, that I was busy. She left, and I later saw her playing outside in the parkinglot completely unattended. I walked on by. School is not in session yet, and I wasn't responsible for that child's safety or its parunts lack of responsibility. Our county gives us only one paid day to prepare for the start of school the rest of the time is spent in ridiculous meetings, and I'm not a baby sitter.
Sorry for the ranting, I needed to!