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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I attend them but I think format is so brief and crammed that as a parent, you don't get a lot of value from the hour or so of time you invest in the experience.

I think elementary is the most valuable, followed by middle and high school being the least valuable. I can sort of see the value of running through your kids' schedule at the secondary level, but given that you're spending so much time on the logistics of moving from classroom to classroom (and getting lost along the way) only for the teacher to breathlessly and double-speed attempt to talk through their syllabus, it seems like it's a setup to fail.[/quote]

I disagree. In high school it’s the only opportunity to meet teachers and interact with them and see the setting my kid spends his day in. In elementary it’sa waste of time.[/quote]

By high school your child should have a relationship with their teacher that doesn't necessarily involve you unless there is a problem.  You also don't need to see their classroom.  By college they will have relationships with their professors that doesn't involve you e en when there is a problem.  And you certainly won't be see the lecture halls.[/quote]

You have completely missed the point! Because by middle school and certainly in high school I have zero relationships with any of my kids teachers and have never met any of them, back to school night is important for me and my only insight or communication (albeit one sided and rushed) with my kid’s teachers. I’m talking about a 14 year old, and one who handles all his school work himself and all his interactions and grades and tests and any problems himself. Once a year I get to see inside his school, where he spends time and what his teachers look like. When he’s 18 and an adult in college he’ll do all that himself but right now he’s a 14 year old child in 10th grade and I think a couple of hours A YEAR of me seeing what his school life is like is very appropriate.[/quote]

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