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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My one kid’s school is a center.

Her teacher this year (who is wonderful otherwise) did not offer conferences in the fall - just said at BTSN [b]to contact her in Nov or Dec if you need/want one. 
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And that school does not do info sessions for AAP. Or maybe it does but only offers them to 2nd grade and does not advertise them above that.

Other kid’s school does both each year. People should stop harping on OP. Not all schools are the same. [/quote]

That was my point. This parent didn’t take initiative and ask for a conference. Strange.[/quote]

The part in bold is offering conferences in the fall. 3rd grade teacher here. I agree. A parent can request a conference at any time. At the end of October/beginning of November I met with parents of about 15 of my students. There are no specific dates set aside for elementary school conferences.[/quote]

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No - sending out a sign up genius and specifying days the conferences will be held is “offering conferences”. Stating the obvious on BTSN - you can ask to meet if you need/want to - is not the same thing.

Re: the AART briefing. Ok perhaps it was offered but it is still safe to say it was not very well advertised if I have been there 4 years and have never noticed them offering it. [/quote]

It’s not the same thing, but it is offering to meet. The teacher just didn’t provide a sign up sheet.

I’m not sure how a teacher would specify days and times to meet with parents of 20-30 students. There are no days set aside for conferences.[/quote]

I don’t know what planet you are from, but in FCPS, conferences are supposed to be held over the two teacher workdays after the 1st quarter ends in early November. This school year it was Nov 4&5. How do you not know this?[/quote]

We are in FCPS and there are no prescheduled parent teach conferences after First Grade. The Teachers are very clear about this at the Second Grade BTSN. Every parent of of a kid outside of K and First Grade told me about this. If you want to have a parent teacher conference, you have to contact the Teacher. There will not be a preset day(s). We simply signed the report card envelop that we wanted a conference and heard back from DS Teacher the next day. It was easy to do but it was 100% initiated by us. So not every school in FCPS has the same parent/teacher conference policy.

As for the working parent thing, we are working parents and knew to read the emails/packet letters/PTA website/school newsletter to find out dates for things like AAP meetings. The reality is that we only pay attention to the things that we are worried about. In Kindergarten that was the Language Immersion program meetings. This year we looked for the AAP meetings, both general and the Level IV specific. But we knew to look. We had no clue about AAP until we got the NNAT results back and I went online to look up what the test was used for. Before that, I was clueless about AAP. (shrugs)

The OP missed the deadlines for whatever reason. It sounds like her school handles conferences the way mine does, no set schedule you have to set up your own. I strongly suspect that the school announced the carious AAP meetings but the OP missed them for whatever reason. [/quote]

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