PARENTS

Ever had a parent complaint that you solve, and then the goalposts just... move? You're not imagining it, and it's not because you're bad at your job.

A parent raises a concern about seating. You move the student.

New concern. You move him again.

Third concern. You move him again, and this time it actually works, the student's improved, your principal's agreed it's the right call. Then the parent calls...again.

At some point, this stops being a seating problem and starts being something else.

Here's a task to reduce your mental load and maintain professionalism:

The 3 L's: Log, Loop In, Let Go

Log it:
Keep a simple dated list. The parent request, the changes you made, what happened afterwards. Various changes over multiple weeks looks very different written down than it does living through it week by week.

Loop in your leader, with a closed request:
Instead of "Can you help me with this parent?", try something specific such as, "I've made four changes based on the parent requests and feedback. I'd like leadership to make the final call on where this student sits from now on, are you able to do that?" That gives leadership the chance to give a clear yes or no, rather than an open-ended problem to sit on.

Let go of  the unsolvable:
Your job is to be fair and document the process, not read the mind of a moving target. Once it's logged and it's sitting with leadership, it's not yours to carry on your own anymore.