School's out for Summer!-AMA

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by DJay23

I'm impressed that many parents care enough to show up.

I haven't had more than 10 in a year for probably the last 10 years.

What the holy ****?

My wife barely has anyone skip it.

[DJay23]

Originally Posted by Buehler445

What the holy ****?

My wife barely has anyone skip it.

The way ours works is we have two days with no "school" (kids stay home, but we work contracted hours). We submit "wish lists" for parents we NEED to sit down with. Letters go home and parents are supposed to call in and schedule a time slot during those 2 days. We offer morning/afternoon one day and afternoon/evening the other. This is Monday/Tuesday before Thanksgiving.

I typically have a wish list of about 20 kids whose parents I haven't already gotten on an e-mail basis with. I will probably see 5 or 6 of those and then a couple of others who want to see me.

Then on the day I'll look at the schedule and sit in on a meeting of a kid I have but who's doing alright for me. So altogether it's around 10.

A couple of years ago I had 5 total meetings. This year I think I was around 8 or 9.

The kids who you need a conference for usually have parents who don't care enough to come in. And that's usually the reason why they are suffering academically (and in other ways unfortunately).