Conferences

Best line overheard at conferences today.

Parent to student: "You do you.  Otherwise I am going to come up to school and I will do me."

I Can't Get No...

I get a smug sense of satisfaction when my phone calls home arrive before the student does.

Ruin a Weekend...

I had a parent conference this morning.  It went something like this.

Me: "Your son has been skipping my class, and has failed to show up for any of the detentions he has been assigned."

Parent to student: "You have me missing work today because you cannot get where you are supposed to be?!?  What the hell is wrong with you?"

Preparing for the Future

*Overheard at parent conferences*

Other Teacher: "__________ is a very interesting young lady.  A while back we had a project listing goals for our future, and _________ said that she either wanted to work with children who have special needs or marry into a drug cartel.  Now I can really only support one of these two decisions..."

Throw Back Conferences

Conferences my first year were sparse to say the least.  Alternative schools are not usually know for their parent involvement.  In a whole day of conferences we saw two parents total.  Two parents. For the whole school.  Teachers got so desperate for something to do that when a parent showed up EVERY teacher, regardless of whether or not they had the student in class, came to the conference.

Parents

In honor of the start of parent/teacher conferences this week here are some of the parents that I see at EVERY parent/teacher conference session.

There are always free cookies.

Parents

Parent conferences are always a little awkward when the parent says to their child, "I would smack you across the mouth, but your teacher is standing right here."