Parents evening for us today....teachers must know i dont like them

I went to a few events where I was like " Why am I here? Ohhh they want to introduce themselves, Bloody Yea Ra!" . Then when I actually need to see them they're too busy. P.S. I hate homework. It's more of a chore for me then the kid many nights. I might as well put my name at the top.

It's funny because my girls are great cleaner uppers at school, at home it is different story. What grade is your daughter in? I know pre-K (age 4) one of the first things they learn is how to clean up their centers/area and to pitch in to help others.

My days of parent/teacher interviews are over (thank goodness) but did always front up and most of the time found them okay, but became a little less interested as the years progressed on my children and found to be hearing the same thing! Which bought me back to the days of my own reports and they usually said the same as what I was hearing. Your child "could do better if put more effort into it!" How many times had on heard this! Like Mother like children I would always think, but was greatful they finished there Secondary schooling, even if they were not the greatest scholars.

Our district does "student-led" conferences...kid sits at a table with mom and dad in the classroom and goes over his or her portfolio of work samples from each class. It builds the presentation skills (and justification skills LOL!) and helps me get a better feel for what goes on. I still think the best way to keep track, though is to volunteer. Even if you work during the day, sneak in on lunch break or take a day of vacation once in a while if you can-many employers will support the endeavor and give you a little release time. And as a teacher, I liked p/t conferences-got to see first hand why the kid was or was not the way s/he was...the saying about apples not falling far from trees is true more often than not.

My boys are in high school...Every once in awhile I'll get a note asking for a conference for the youngest....I send a note telling them they just need to do a better job. My son is a typical boy..He's just lazy..And if they don't believe me just ask him..LOL...I don't get notes that often now..

im in high school, and its pretty much the opposite. instead of the teacher telling your parent how their child is doing, the teachers pretty much have to defend their right to teach. usually this entails a long drawn out speech that extends past the cut off time and ends with a nervous and sweaty teacher and glaring parenting eyes. so for me, they go great.

well, yes, I have had to face several such parent-teacher meetings and I absolutely hate them. Let me tell you that I an extremely scared of teachers even now and I am not ashamed to own it up and somehow teachers of all age succeed in making me feel like an incompetent fool. I love my son, try to do the best for him and attend these meetings in the hope that I will learn more on parental guidance at home. But no! such meetings confuse me all the more and irritate my son to no end if I try to implement all those preposterous suggestions at home. Some are definitely helpful but most of them I take with a pinch of salt.

Oh boy do I know what you mean about the ones with no children trying to tell you how you should be parenting your child, I always refused to have a health visitor or midwife who hadn't experienced giving birth themselves etc. Son stil too young but went to many of my girls parents evenings, what used to annoy me the most is that they would compare my younger daughter to my eldest and the younger one is more artistic and creative than the older who is more acemdemic but the expections for the younger one to achieve put us all under a lot of pressure and even caused the younger one to feel like she wasn't good enough and she always felt in her sisters shadow, which is from and this all stemmed for the school teachers praising one and giving critism to the other. I probably will attend my sons when he is old enough but I will have my say too. Every child is unique and different. Ellie :D

i do go to these events as they're not held often and i can also talk to the teachers face to face which i feel is better than talking on the phone. but i do agree that most just talk about academic results and all. but for me, fortunately since my son is still young, his teacher and i talk about how i can improve his reading, behaviour and all so right now, it's fine for me. i call the teacher sometimes, not often of course. as for meeting teachers themselves, we usually get to meet them just once a year. i am not really satisfied with that as like many said, we hear the same things thus, i call ocassionally to find out what he's doing in school, how his behaviour is, his friends and so on.

I think the teachers probably don't like the event any more than we do. My daughter's name is Heidi (just like the classic.) She had a 3rd or 4th grade teacher who could neither pronounce it (she always said Hidi) not spell it correctly. But she proceded to tell me how my daughter was doing academically. She was not foreign so there was no excuse for her ignorance in spelling. Couldn't stand that woman.