Talk to me about parent teacher conferences at the kindergarten stage

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What were you looking for in these conferences? They are usually to address concerns and that’s it. We stopped going after 3rd for my oldest and after 1st for DC2.

This is our oldest, so we are learning as we go. The only other thing we've encountered like this is the parent teacher conferences that our daycare did--and it was not a fancy or high end daycare, but, they offered much more thoughtful and insightful feedback in to our child's progress and development than what I experienced today.

You are quoting me. I’ve found that the elementary parent conferences are not designed for this. I’m a high school teacher and we only meet with parents if there are issues so this wasn’t a shock for me. I went to the conferences at the beginning. Usually they told me my child was fine and maybe said some minor things they could work on. I told them to please contact me if anything every came up that they needed me to address at home. All of us smiled and said thanks have a great day.

[Anonymous]

I’m not clear on what you think you should be advocating for. Not every teacher will be your favorite, someone years you just get through.

As for the comparison to daycare, I imagine the ratios at daycare were close to the small-group ST sessions than a full K class, so it’s not surprising you got comparable kinds of feedback.