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[quote=Anonymous]I’ve attended them every year. It’s nice to put a face to the teacher’s name, hear what they’ll be covering in class, get a feel for the teacher’s personality and how they run their classroom, and see the inside of the school. I’ve been really impressed with my kids’ teachers.

I have kids at two different high schools, and both of them had BTSN on the third day of school. One of the schools tried something new this year for BTSN and it was sh!tshow. Instead of following your kid’s schedule and visiting all of their classrooms, they set up four 15-minute sessions. Different teachers were assigned to cover different courses, and the same courses weren’t covered in all 4 sessions. You might have to go to a classroom your kid’s never been in to hear a teacher your kid doesn’t have talk about a course your kid is taking. You couldn’t plan out your evening in advance because the only way to know who was talking about what and where was to have a paper handout that they didn’t distribute until people arrived for BTSN. They didn’t have enough copies of the handout, so parents were left standing in the lobby with no idea where to go. When staff finally produced more copies, it took some time to figure out what to do for each session. Not one of my dc’s courses was covered in the first session. A couple courses didn’t appear to be covered at all. The teacher I wanted to see in the second session couldn’t make it that night. I only got to meet one of dc’s teachers. Very frustrating and disappointing.

The other school stuck to the traditional evening where you follow your dc’s schedule, visit each of their classrooms, and actually meet their teachers. My spouse attended that BTSN and said it was great. I got the short end of the stick.
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