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Right, parents and teachers- this way please. Parent's evening.

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Hakluyt · 21/10/2014 09:12

What are the killer questions? What have you found has got the information you want from your 5 minute slot.

Teachers- what questions make your hearts sink? Be honest- the chances of any of your parents being in here is vanishingly small! Grin

I was thinking along the lines of "In your opinion, is he working to the limit of his ability?"

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RabbitOfNegativeEuphoria · 21/10/2014 12:17

I have never found these events to be useful. The thing I hate the most is when the teacher says hello then asks the student how they think they're doing. That's just lazy. The inevitable answer for kids of a certain type (which includes mine) is 'alright' possibly with an 'I suppose' tacked on. How does that help anyone? But it probably wastes up to a minute of your 5 minutes.

BrendaBlackhead · 21/10/2014 11:24

watching with interest.

At dd's school the pupil accompanies the parents. I'm not sure whether this is a good idea or a bad one, as when ds was at the school sometimes clearly there was more to be said that kind of hung in the air. Otoh, at least the teachers mostly knew who they were talking about! I'm quite sure that in my day 3/4 of the teachers had absolutely no clue which pupil it was that belonged to the parents sitting in front of them.

AtiaoftheJulii · 21/10/2014 10:29

I tend to ask, what could s/he be doing to improve?