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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes. Firstly, I love hearing that other people can see how awesome my kid is, just like I do.  Secondly, it's important for teachers to know parents care about their kids by showing up. It's once or twice a year - not a big time commitment. [/quote]

We don’t think I that. Although I would love to have the time to sit and chat with all of the parents, we teach over 130 students each. Even if half want conferences you can imagine how much time this takes. I’m a math teacher and parents often want to see me or ask simple questions that could be answered in email. Most often, they want to be assured that their 14 yo will be in the most advanced math class senior year. I can’t answer that.

Teachers often talk about how we don’t understand why so many parents with kids with As feel the need to schedule these.  Usually well over half want to see the math teachers at my high SES school. [/quote]

Because we care deeply about our kids’ education. And we were told it was a partnership. [/quote]

We were told that too. And then administrators didn’t give us the time to actually meet with the 60+ families that want to meet with us. I asked for an admin day for our department since we get so many requests and was told no. We should find the time on our time since we still have mandatory meetings during planning blocks. [/quote]

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