The problem with parents

So when I was subbing this past week there was an incident with a computer and a student shredding some keys off the keyboard. I had checkout procedures in place that I checked the computer when it was checked out and when it was checked in. Seems logical right? Apparently not, when I turned in that the computer had keys broken and the name of the student, according to my log, that had done it I suddenly became a racist bitch.
    Let me explain, the student claimed to have not done it.  When their parent was called the story that they ended up going with was that since the little boy was black I must be racist and purposely pulled the keys off to make him and his parents pay for it. You have to love parents…I was asked to write a statement about what happened and turn it into the office. The day after I did this the parent came storming into school, completely bypassing the office, to “talk” to me. Now this is never good especially where there is no one around to witness the exchange. Plus I might add that I am a substitute and was only going to be there for a week! So the parent expresses her opinion on who and what she thinks I am and all I could do was feel sorry for her. She storms into the building to confront a person she has never met but going on the word of her kid, who is in trouble a lot at the school, yelling at me. She wanted me to change the statement I gave and she wanted a rise out of me to validate that I was a racist bitch. It was evident in the phone that she had recording the exchange.
     So in short I really cannot stand some parents. When I was a kid if the teacher said I did anything whether I did or not would not have mattered to my parents! I would have been in some deep  trouble. Sometimes I think we need to bring the paddle back to schools. I remember when I was in elementary, before they got rid of it, that it was heck of a deterrentt. Kids did not break the rules more than once, twice if they were slow learners. There was a true consequence that affected you. Oh well, I just hope we somehow find a way to make sure that kids have real consequences.