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

My dad was born in 1947 - he came to secondary school parent's evening's but mum had moved out by then, doubt he came to primary as he was at work. Not sure if even mum came to primary ones though! No memory of them 😊

My dad was born in the ‘40s and he went to multiple parents’ evenings because my mum worked in the evenings. He came back with detailed reports. Clearly took notes. He really values education, though, and wanted to hear how we were getting on.

I always went for my own kids, my own parents usually went, but just one, depending on shift pattern.

I am 55 and both my parents went to parents evening in primary & secondary for me & sister, friends fathers also went as far as. I recall.

My parents both did shift work so whoever was available would go. My dad was birn the same year as yours. This actually did tend to be my dad more than my mum (she was a nurse). They would both go if they were available but I was the youngest so no young children at home.

I don't think they would arrange childcare for them both to go. To be honest we wouldn't either. We've always thought one can go and the other can feed back.

Cant remember primary school - but for one of them my Dad was the Head!

Secondary school - they both went. In those days (69-76) pupils didn’t go.

When they got back words were sometimes exchanged.

My own children - we both went to primary school ones unless they were in the day time.

Secondary school - just my wife as I was already there. As they didn’t do my subject we never all met round a table.

My Dad was born in 1942 and yes, he went to parents’ evenings. Both my parents did.

Yes my dad went to my parents evenings

He might have missed a few but only due to work commitments.

my husband goes to our children’s and his dad went to his along with his mum

I am 48. You're not being unreasonable but I know my dad only went to a few because he was often at work. Don't think he went to any after primary school! My husband has only been to one of our son's (he's 11) because he doesn't get home in time.

My Dad never went. But he worked onsite full time and mum was a SAHM. It wouldn’t have made any sense for him to leave and get to school at 4pm for something mum could tell him later on.
My own DH missed parents evening this year as he couldn’t get away from work!

@Goldongold I don’t think my dad even did that. Not once.

My dad was born 1930.

I remember him going to the last couple of primary ones & all 2ndry.

The one time my father turned up at a school event, a teacher assumed he was my stepfather as he didn't think I had a dad. Lol awkward!

Generalising here but many dads worked longer hours as they were often the only wage earner. My dad only stepped foot on my school grounds once to collect me when mum was in hospital

No

When I was a governor of a primary school, we looked at % of dc who had a parent/carer attending parents evening. It was a school that needed to improve and we wanted to engage with parents. This was around 2000. 80% had typically turned up. That was pretty static. We managed to get dc into a choir (heroic effort by a class/music teacher) and well over 90% arrived. Much bigger turnout for Xmas production too. Cups of tea on offer and we tried to be welcoming. Parents even apologised that they couldn’t come. Leafy lane schools nearly always get a decent turn out, others - it’s much harder work.

My dad was the primary parent (I'm 38) he also joined the pta (wasn't called the pta back then but he did a lot of helping!) He later became a parent governor as well. He went to every parents evening, sports day, nativity etc and so did my mum, maybe I just got lucky on having very modern parents!

Yes. He was a school governor too so v involved with school.

Yes, at least when he wasn't traveling for work. But my mother was not reliable and later absent. I remember one of my aunts also filled in several times.

But I'm late 30s and my dad was born in the 1960s, so there's a bit of a generation gap between him and yours.

On the other hand, my grandparents didn't provide babysitting services.

I’m 38

My dad went to every parents evening and used to take a post it set and pen to write down my faults, used to crack me up. But both my parents worked in education and were very engaged with mine. Had a little lol at the post it memory so thanks for that OP 😍

Nope not a one. I’m 46.

He was always at work during the early years of secondary then when he retired when I was 14 it was still very much mum’s domain. But then he also thought A-Levels were something you did if you messed up your GCSEs so refused to speak to me in the summer after y11 as I was planning on staying in education.* It was just a completely different mindset, one borne out of someone whose education was destroyed by WW2.

*Eventually, he got it. He looked round our forever home, and realised that it wasn’t just dh’s income that meant we could afford it. He told me he was proud of me, and how hard I’d worked to get the qualifications to get the job to pay for it. I miss him daily.

Yes once in year 11 but they did question my Geography teacher's knowledge as he didn't agree with an assessment mark for the course which was slightly awkward.

My Dad (born 1947), went to parents evenings - they both did.
He was also the one who drove me around different universities in the UK to look at (despite his working class background and no other relatives having gone to university).

My dad was a shift worker. If he wasn't on shift he would either go with mum or care for us while mum went on her own.