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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I found out that our school only allows parents to meet 3 teachers for the parent teacher conference. My kid has 7 teachers!

So I have to choose which courses (science, math, english, history, french) are less important where I get no update. What is this BS? They can't figure out a way to give parents 5 minutes with each teacher to undertand how my kid is doing?  And don't tell me its a logistics and scheduling issue. AI could figure this out in about 3 minutes flat. Teachers are giving time across a 1.5 day period.

Do all private schools operate this way? Seems ridiculous for the tuition paid.

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OP this is actually common. Nothint is stopping you from reaching out to all of the teachers that you want to speak to, and setting up meetings with them. There is limited time available on the one day designated for conferences.  5 minutes is not enough for a conference, so stop that nonsense.

Try being a little more proactive and a little less whiny. [/quote]m

Clearly it’s not common so stop talking out of your ass. School does not allow separate meetings outside of the conferences and will not accommodate. You can only meet with the advisor- who is not the teacher. It’s just a dumb  approach. [/quote]

I can see limiting conferences to 3. As much as you say AI can easily arrange that for you, the simple truth is that there aren’t enough hours in the day to schedule a conference for each parent. AI can’t fix that problem.

Just call the school and ask to schedule additional conferences if it’s that important to you. I really, really doubt they will turn you down.

Or ask yourself: do you REALLY need to meet with each teacher? If grades are good and written feedback is good, what else can the teacher do for you in 10 minutes? There are parents who may have more need of that teacher’s time during conference day. 
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