Fellow Teachers. a question from a 16 year veteran

[AZLD4Candidate]

Have you ever noticed, as PTC time, the parents you don't need to take to always come, but the parents you need to speak to never make their presence known?

BTW, it's the same everywhere. It was the same in Thailand, Malaysia, South Korea, and China (where I've taught for many years).

[PoliticAverse]

1. I lived in NYC and when my mother came back from the parent-teacher meetings she inevitably told me

one of the teachers told her "It's always the good students whose parents come".

[Diamond_Dog]

2. My husband is a retired teacher

And yes he always said the same thing.

He taught in the inner city and had some real nice kids and he had some doozies and some nice parents and some whack job parents. A little bit of everything.

And the home life of some of his kids would break your heart.

[Nikossitti]

3. Forty years--the same

In my forty year teaching career it was always like this. The phenomenon explains itself.

[Quakerfriend]

4. I'm not a teacher but, I never

thought NOT going to a PTC was an option.

[lapucelle]

5. I have a friend who had a student all four years of high school.

The only PTC that the parent came to was the last one in senior year. She said one thing to my friend and then walked away:

"You do beautiful work."

[jcgoldie]

6. The ones who come to PTC

Are active parents who take an interest in their kids... thats why you don't need to talk to them. The ones you really need to talk to are absent or have other issues and thats why the conference would help but rarely happens.