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Florida teacher: 'Be the parent that actually gives a crap!'

A Florida teacher is telling parents to stop being their children's friend and step up in a now-viral Facebook post.

"Be the parent that actually gives a crap! Be the annoying mom that pries and knows what your kid is doing. STOP being their friend," she wrote.

Kelly Guthrie Raley posted on Facebook following a shooting a Florida high school that claimed the lives of 17 people. 

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She said that as a teacher, she is willing to take the criticism and call parents out.

Okay, I’ll be the bad guy and say what no one else is brave enough to say, but wants to say. I’ll take all the...

Posted by Kelly Guthrie Raley on Thursday, February 15, 2018

"Until we, as a country, are willing to get serious and talk about mental health issues, lack of available care for the mental health issues, lack of discipline in the home, horrendous lack of parental support when the schools are trying to control horrible behavior at school (oh no! Not MY KID. What did YOU do to cause my kid to react that way?), lack of moral values, and yes, I’ll say it-violent video games that take away all sensitivity to ANY compassion for others’ lives, as well as reality TV that makes it commonplace for people to constantly scream up in each others’ faces and not value any other person but themselves, we will have a gun problem in school," wrote the sixth-grade teacher.

Raley said she grew up with guns, and her message was not about gun control, but parenting.

"But you know what? My parents NEVER supported any bad behavior from me. I was terrified of doing something bad at school, as I would have not had a life until I corrected the problem and straightened my ass out," she wrote.

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She said her parents gave her a curfew, always knew where she was and made her respect the rules.

"Being the 'cool mom' means not a d**** thing when either your kid is dead or your kid kills other people because they were allowed to have their space and privacy in YOUR HOME," she said.

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Raley also said she that she's seen a transformation over her 20 years of teaching.

"Twenty years ago that I wasn’t afraid daily to call a parent because I KNEW that 9 out of 10 would cuss me out, tell me to go to Hell, call the news on me, call the school board on me, or post all over FaceBook about me because I called to let them know what their child chose to do at school," she wrote.

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Raley said it's time to take parental responsibility seriously.

Her post has been shared more than a half a million times.