excuuuuuuuuuse me

today i had a child ask to use the phone so that he could call his mother because she told him to call her whenever a teacher wasn't handling a situation "correctly." this was just after i had placed him in time out and THEN had a talk in the hallway because he had been cursing and telling people on the other side of the room he was going to fight them. apparently he thought that making him think about his actions and come up with alternative behaviors was too harsh. why, why, why do parents equip their children with egos the size of montana and then send them off to my classroom all day? i grew up being told that when it comes down to the teacher versus me, the teacher always wins by default. i miss the good old days of my youth. :)