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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsFellow Teachers. a question from a 16 year veteran
Have you ever noticed, as PTC time, the parents you don't need to take to always come, but the parents you need to speak to never make their presence known?
BTW, it's the same everywhere. It was the same in Thailand, Malaysia, South Korea, and China (where I've taught for many years).
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)one of the teachers told her "It's always the good students whose parents come".
Diamond_Dog
(31,987 posts)And yes he always said the same thing.
He taught in the inner city and had some real nice kids and he had some doozies and some nice parents and some whack job parents. A little bit of everything.
And the home life of some of his kids would break your heart.
Nikossitti
(253 posts)In my forty year teaching career it was always like this. The phenomenon explains itself.
Quakerfriend
(5,450 posts)thought NOT going to a PTC was an option.
lapucelle
(18,252 posts)The only PTC that the parent came to was the last one in senior year. She said one thing to my friend and then walked away:
jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)Are active parents who take an interest in their kids... thats why you don't need to talk to them. The ones you really need to talk to are absent or have other issues and thats why the conference would help but rarely happens.