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Do teachers really want all parents to go to parents eve ?

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Howlongtillbedtime · 12/01/2018 07:16

In this day and age of email contact with teachers (secondary school) is parents a evening an outdated pita for teachers ?

I have a child in yr 9 , parents eve is coming up , I have dutifully booked a few appointments but am I just wasting everyones time ? Do teachers really want me to turn up and spend 5 mins hearing all is ok ? We get regular progress reports and a yearly full report and if anything was amiss we have email .

So my question is will the teachers be grateful if I cancel or think I am a parent that doesn't care about their child's education?

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Bekabeech · 12/01/2018 18:13

Teachers expect you to attend (at least some subjects) if you don't attend at all you will be seen as not caring that much. You can't really keep up to date with just email, and in my experience often teachers have important information to pass on and a lot of context.

cansu · 12/01/2018 16:59

No only go if you have a concern or they are not doing well.

BuffaloCrumble · 12/01/2018 16:57

Don't know about secondary, but at my primary we get quite annoyed if parents don't come to parents' eve. We chase them repeatedly to make appts either on the eve or an alternative date if they don't.