Comments on: Surviving Parent Teacher Conferences

By: nmorse

nmorse — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:25:31 +0000

I feel bad for Ms. K. She was just trying to show the parents what was going on with their children and the parents got mad at her. I think she was right to put on behavior problems and other comments on the report cards. Some parents don’t know what their child does during an average school day and the report card and conferences are the only way they find out how their child is really doing. I feel that if a parent is not getting involved in a child’s education then they should not have the right to get mad at the teacher when they don’t know what is going on with their own child.

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Regurgitated Alpha Bits: A Different Angle — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:02:22 +0000

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Whose Right Is It Anyway? | So You Want To Teach? — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 06:14:07 +0000

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Parent-teacher nightmares at Joanne Jacobs — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:19:30 +0000

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Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:12:48 +0000

[...] Surviving Parent Teacher Conferences “My first round of Parent Teacher Conferences in November went fairly smoothly. The parents were kind and supportive, and as a first year teacher, I was secretly surprised by how confident they were in me and my judgement [sic].” [...]