Parent-teacher conferences

[Anonymous]

Freshman parent here — how are conferences handled? Do we actually get any time to talk to teachers?

[Anonymous]

At the public high schools in APS, they aren't even offered. Conference days are only off school for elementary and middle school.

I think the idea is if you have issues you (or ideally your student) talks to specific teachers in real time as the school year goes along.

I'm sure this is handled differently everywhere though.

[Anonymous]

I think it really depends on the school.

At our HS, most parents do not do conferences. A parent or teacher can request a PT conference if there is an issue.

I’ve never been to one and have multiple kids.

[Anonymous]

We’re in MCPS

[Anonymous]

We got to sign up for 5-8 min virtual conferences

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We’re in MCPS

At our MCPS high school, you will receive an email about scheduling a conference if your child received a C or lower first quarter. Conferences are scheduled directly in ParentVue. Not sure if this is MCPS policy or just our school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We’re in MCPS

At our MCPS high school, you will receive an email about scheduling a conference if your child received a C or lower first quarter. Conferences are scheduled directly in ParentVue. Not sure if this is MCPS policy or just our school.

Our school too. You have to meet certain criteria grade-wise or be invited by a teacher for other reasons. I assume you could just request one but it isn’t really an option that is provided.

[Anonymous]

We're in FCPS and the teachers have been good about reaching out if needed or responding to emails if we have questions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We're in FCPS and the teachers have been good about reaching out if needed or responding to emails if we have questions.

Some yes beyond amazing and some crickets.

[Anonymous]

I don’t sign up unless my kid seems to struggle in that class. It’s not like elementary where you go to hear how well your kid is doing.

[Anonymous]

I skipped them in MS/HS. My kids are well behaved, straight A students. I don't need to hear teachers praise my children. It's better for parents to be able to use those slots if their kids are struggling.

[Anonymous]

We're at a DC charter IB high school, and we have "Student-led Conferences" with each kid's equivalent of a "homeroom teacher" (called different things in middle and high school). That teacher gets feedback from all the student's other teachers and the student "leads" a review of how they're doing in every subject, which the homeroom teacher comments on or expands on. Parents can ask questions anywhere along the way.

Now they're almost all virtual, where pre-pandemic they were in mostly in person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We're at a DC charter IB high school, and we have "Student-led Conferences" with each kid's equivalent of a "homeroom teacher" (called different things in middle and high school). That teacher gets feedback from all the student's other teachers and the student "leads" a review of how they're doing in every subject, which the homeroom teacher comments on or expands on. Parents can ask questions anywhere along the way.

Now they're almost all virtual, where pre-pandemic they were in mostly in person.

Same PP, also we all (parents, student, teacher) have access to a version of student's progress reports in whatever computer program the school is using to track assignments, grades and teacher notes. So we look at that as we have the student-led conference.