People older than 35; did your dad go to school parent’s evenings?

I don’t actually remember. My dad is no longer alive but I could ask my mum. Having a parent who was also a teacher I’m thinking that my mum just went to the parents evenings on her own but I could be wrong.

As an ex teacher who has done my fair share of parents evenings as a teacher it’s bit of a mix who comes. Often depends on working patterns. With my own kids I would try to to get my now ex to come and be mostly did I less his work shifts were preventing him when the kids were at primary. Secondary has been more hit and miss but all parents evenings have been virtual since they started secondary. The online system can be tricky trying to get a second parent connected from a different device. He often thinks they’re a waste of time anyway - his words.

Can't remember for primary school but probably not. Neither parent went to high school parents nights until my last year but that was only because one of my classmates had told her mum (who worked with my mum) how horrible one of our teachers was to me so they felt obliged to go and speak to the teacher (who'd been fucking horrible to me for years by that point and my parents hadn't given a shiny shit and all they did was make things worse).

My dad did all the parents' evenings. He'd go straight from his work commute, as there wouldn't have been time for him to come home and swap over or both go etc.

My parents were divorced, (my mum divorced him for being a “useless lazy bastard”), he lived an hour and a half’s drive away from us, but he still came to every single parents’ evening! (This was in the 90s and early 2000s.)

I was at school in the 1970s and 80s and my Dad definitely went to my parents’ evenings

My Dad went with my mum to our village primary and our comp in the nearest town.

I'm surprised to remember that he did go. Not primary but secondary especially after my parents split up.

As far as I remember neither mum or dad went to my parents evening.
They went to older brothers as it was at the grammar school.
Also to younger brother as he was a nightmare.

Yes, I remember my dad and mum always going to my parent's evenings. My dad (born 1947 for context) was a commuter into London so I don't ever remember him attending a Christmas concert, sports day, or anything like that, but he was always at the parent's evening.

ETA.. however, for a lot of my education I was at an independent school, so I suspect as well as wanting to support my education my dad wanted to make sure he was getting his money's worth!

No but he did also work shifts
that said my mum only went to the occasional one
move been to the majority of my kids and hand on heart most of them were a complete waste of time

I don't think he ever went, no. I don't think he'd pretend not to know what they were, though. I think your dad's having you on, OP!

yes definitely although in later years he was working away so probably missed a few

he was previously a teacher and would have spent many hours sat on the other side of the table

he took a lot of interest in my education, more than my dm

My dad was self employed and went to parents evenings with my mum whenever he wasn't working. He was also born in 1943. I cannot begin to imagine how your dad could say he wasn't aware that parents evenings existed.

I’m 35 and my dad definitely did. Though I went to a expensive private school so he probably wanted to make sure he was getting his moneys worth! DP hasn’t been to any for his 2 older kids. He has been to one for our child, but she only started school this year.

No never

YABU

Never

im 47ish and both my parents went to secondary & they both worked FT.
Primary my Mum/Dad or both went dependent on shift that my Mum was on. During my primary school years my Mum worked night shifts.

I'm 38 and my dad was born in 1951. He attended all of them. He worked but I guess they went to one of the later slots.

I'm a teacher now. You do get plenty of dads attending.

Yep. I'm 40 and dad born in 57 he went to all, primary and secondary (to be fair my parents divorced in y9 so he would have had to have gone but went to all of them anyway) Not unusual to me, DH has been to all our kids ones and I see most dads at parents evening there too.

My dad's quite "traditional" and he went to work whilst my mum looked after us. My mum did work once we both started school, but she worked in a school so she was still around for all childcare. I don't remember my dad going to a single parents evening, or even hearing him ask how parents evening went. My mum went to them all though. I also don't remember seeing many other dad's there, so I think this was fairly typical of the times (90s-2000s).

Dad hardly ever went to mine because he was working or minding the rest of the kids ,mam always went . He did go when the younger kids time came and he wasn't working on the night. My parents were born in the 60s I'm in my 40s. I did all the meetings until recent years because husband would be away for work but he goes when he is around .

My dad probably didn’t even know where our school was! Not even joking…he never went to a single school ‘thing’ for any of us (I’m the oldest of four).

No but he was working and they were from 4 pm ish
It was not lack of care that he didn't come .

Only dad went. My mum refused to.