parent teacher conference

Tuesday, February 27, 2007 8:50 PM

Ok so here is my question....why?
Why do we set aside a night or several night and put the teachers all in one location so that parents can come and talk to them?? Mostly what happens is, the parents of the good students come and hear over and over "what a great kid you have" while the parents of the students who are failing never come. Obviously these ( the parents of the failing kids)are the parents we want to talk to but never get to. So what is the purpose of this activity? I really think it's a hold over from the 50's and 60's when stay at home moms were more prevalent and they wanted to do the whole meet and greet thing with the teachers..we really need to come up with something like parent teacher email night...oh well just my little rant as I really don't want to sit here at school for 4 and 1/2 hours for the 9 parents who actually show up.

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