Parent Teacher Conferences

[Anonymous]

Wondering if there are any other mcps ES teachers who are refusing to offer conferences on the two early Release days 11/25 and 11/26. DS teacher informed us that she will not be available those two days and the only available times she’ll be offering are before and after school unless we agree to a virtual conference (we prefer in person). Aren’t those days meant for conferences? In the past we always met with teachers on those two days so this is a little surprising.

[Anonymous]

We've never had a teacher who scheduled conferences on those days. It's always been before after and before school.

[Anonymous]

She's entitled to take leave if she needs to.

[Anonymous]

She might be going away for that week. She is not denying you a conference- just offering alternate times. Let her know when you’re available and work to find a time that works.

[Anonymous]

Consider this an opportunity to work on being flexible, OP. Clearly not your strong suit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Consider this an opportunity to work on being flexible, OP. Clearly not your strong suit.

And yours is: not finding positive things to say.
-DP

[Anonymous]

The question was: wondering if other mcps teachers are doing this (as in wondering if it’s a trend or the new norm at other schools ). Nothing in the post states there was a huge issue with it or that we are inflexible. I used the words “ a little surprising”. That’s all.

Thanks for the responses (I think )
-OP

[Anonymous]

Yes, we had teachers do it in elemetary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The question was: wondering if other mcps teachers are doing this (as in wondering if it’s a trend or the new norm at other schools ). Nothing in the post states there was a huge issue with it or that we are inflexible. I used the words “ a little surprising”. That’s all.

Thanks for the responses (I think )
-OP

you said she is “refusing” to use those days, it implies there’s an issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The question was: wondering if other mcps teachers are doing this (as in wondering if it’s a trend or the new norm at other schools ). Nothing in the post states there was a huge issue with it or that we are inflexible. I used the words “ a little surprising”. That’s all.

Thanks for the responses (I think )
-OP

you said she is “refusing” to use those days, it implies there’s an issue.

Well you made a huge inference and ran with it. The whole point of the post was to crowd source if other schools are “refusing” parents those days.

[Anonymous]

Our ES teachers normally schedule for different days -- not sure if that's because they won't be there that week, just want to be able to spread the conferences out over other days and leave earlier, or are trying to help out working parents like me (which I appreciate!).

[Anonymous]

I am still curious if most schools do offer those days or not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am still curious if most schools do offer those days or not.

I don't think there is any way to know this -- no one is cataloguing this, and you are asking on an anonymous forum. Plus it probably varies by teacher and not just school.

[Anonymous]

I don't suppose the teacher has children of their own that they need to attend conferences for?

[Anonymous]

Why do you need to crowdsource this? To get her in trouble?
Fwiw, the conference days used to be around Veteran’s Day but ES teachers always offered various other slots before/after school on other days. Then there were the two years when in person conferences weren’t even an option, plus they wanted the kid on the zoom, which was uncomfortable and not productive.