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[quote=Anonymous]Yesterday after school, I met with a parent about his child's performance in my class. It's a classic situation of a high performing parent who is distressed over a child earning mostly Bs. There's the occasional A or C. Past year's report card grades in the same subject have also been mostly Bs. During the meeting, I encouraged the student to share why she felt she wasn't earning As. Instead, the dad kept prompting verbally that she was bored and not challenged. I really wasn't interested in spending our limited time on the defensive rather than trying to get to the root causes and brainstorm strategies. So, I agreed that she "might be bored, but..." although I don't really believe that.
 I think that was a huge mistake. The dad was no longer interested in anything except how I was going to enrich instruction for his daughter. He didn't want to look at her work to compare it to the samples of "A" student work. Nor did he want to discuss alternative methods she could use if her current ones weren't working. The worse part was that his daughter looked really worried when he talked about making the course more challenging for her.
I'm not a rookie teacher. I was just tired at the end of the day at the end of the week. Is there a way to fix this so I can really help the student?[/quote]

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