Parent Conference Night
CSNY – Teach Your Children Well
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Tonight is one of the six “High Holy Days” that our principal has pronounced here at Cochran Middle School. Parents come from 6pm – 8pm and basically ask the same question over and over: “Why did my child get an ‘F’ in your class?”
Most of the time I’ve not seen a whole lot of behavioral or academic change as a result of these conferences, but I understand that they are necessary to have, if not for any other reason than to appease doting parents who have students earning “A’s” and want to hear their child’s teacher’s tell them how wonderful they are.
To both of these groups I will happily oblige, yet I wonder if there might be more effective ways to tire out both teachers and students as they head rapidly toward spring break.
Themocracy
I have to say that I was never sure the point of them since you’re right–you tell parents of “A” students how great their kids are and say “Because he/she doesn’t do his/her work” over and over to the others.