General Chat

does this sound mad to you? my younger daughter is starting junior school in september,so tonight we were going to a "meet your childs teacher " meeting.hubby had to finish work early to get home for 6pm and wasn't happy because that also meant missing the footie.anyway we get to the meeting and they go throughthe usual rules,uniform etc(which we already knew as our older daughter is at the school),it gets to 6.35 and the head say sorry but Mrs W has to leave early,apologies to anyone whose child is going to be in Mrs W's class.Strange but i thought meeting the teacher was the whole point of going., Karen

Unbelievable!! It's like when you get to parents' evening and find half the teachers aren't there! Mandy :)

I agree teachers are only people just like us but the fact that the teacher sat through the meeting for half an hour before leaving and joked that she really wasn't leaving to watch football somehow suggests that she wasn't ill or that there was any problem.Sometimes things do crop up that are unavoidable,i understand that but perhaps the school could have arranged another meeting for that teacher to meet the parents after all teachers are often saying that parents aren't involved enough in their childs education, Karen

It does sound odd Karen--not a very good first impression for a teacher to give the parents of a new class! I know many teachers and have to say that generally Parents Evening seems to be sacrosanct and they attend no matter what. If I were you, I would call the school and say you were a bit upset that no explanation was given, and ask if another meeting could be scheduled. They can only say no, but at least you can point out you weren't impressed with the lack of communication.

Sally, for me it wasn't so bad(although hubby was annoyed that he missed the footie) ,i already have another daughter at the school,i felt for the parents who have their first child starting in sept, but like you said it doesn't give a good impression, Karen.

My daughter starts the nursery which is attached to the school in September and they also have a meeting but they also come round to your house and visit as well so that the children get to meet at least one of their teachers in an enviroment that the child feels comfortable in. Worst I had was parents evening at the high school, letter said 'Please be prompt for your appointment as the teachers time is limited' We duly arrived 10 mins early only to be left waiting for 45 mins!!! Sue:-)

been there before,although i have to say that it was the teachers first year so maybe she wasn't sure how long to spend with each parent.and she was the most fantastic teacher she really brought out the best in my daughter and my daughter really didn't want to leave her class,sadly same can't be said of this years one. Karen

When my girls were at secondary school, we had to send a note back saying which teachers we wanted to speak to (there were several teachers teaching some subjects) The school then allocated us appointment times and on parents' evening they all sat in the assembly hall at spaced table towards the sides of the room with chairs in the centre of the hall. Every 10 minutes or so(can't remember actual timings) a bell would ring signalling the time to move on to the next appointment. If you stayed, apart from being glared at by other parents, you would miss your next appointment. I can't say that parents liked it at first, but it did keep people from staying too long.

don't even get me started on the zig zag lines.its the same parents day in day out that park on them,one day i was crossing with my younger daughter(6yrs old) when an idiot pulled up in the road but not pulled right into the pavement he then shouted out to his child to hurry up,we then started to cross about 15ft behind the car when he suddenly starts reversing at speed towards us,luckily he then decided to look in his mirror and stop,i went up to him to tell him that he shouln't be parked there and instead of an appolgy i got a mouth full of abuse. Karen.