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by elizabeth on October 31st, 2007

Fresh on the heels of our earlier discussion, there’s an interesting discussion afoot at the Guam Daily News about scheduling parent teacher conferences in order for working parents to attend.

School’s out for October?
Nov 5, 2007 at 6:34 am

[…] was a half day for Parent Teacher conferences, and, today is yet another half day for the same […]
Missy
Nov 12, 2007 at 9:36 am

Had my first experience with this last week. Teacher asked for us to come to a 7:45 appt. Hmm…Bus arrives at 7:52, school starts at 8:20, smaller child at home that goes to daycare and neither could go to the school with us. daycare is on the other side of town. I felt like we were rushed (seeing as how we missed open house night) and that we had made a number of arrangements with about a week and a half notice for 20 minutes of her time.

I realize the teachers don’t want to stay around or get there too early either..they have lives after all…but it just felt rushed and not at all give and take. More of a “this is how your child is doing in my class and have a nice day” feel to it.
michiganpeach
Feb 13, 2008 at 7:51 am

i feel that conferences are just a waste of time. me daughter is 17 and i have never been to one of her conferences in my life yet she is still a straight A student. i feel that if the teacher really needs to speak with me, then they will call or send a note home, other then that i dont care.
if my child is doing good then why do we need to talk about her.