To be dreading face to face parents evening Thursday

[IHateParentsEvenings]

Going to get flamed to a crisp, never mind.

I am dreading it … teaching all day and then three solid hours between 4 and 7 talking to parents, some will be lovely but there will be some really difficult ones, won’t be able to be cut off after five minutes, will enjoy making me justify every detention since September.

Then home exhausted and still got the next days planning to do …

sorry MN, I dread it.

The 5 mins allows for a quick update on progress. Parents/Teachers should be made aware of any major concerns when they arise. You don’t wait for parents evening! I talk to parents on the phone throughout the week if need be.

Those teachers must be extremely well remunerated @Tolson !
Or naive.

Oh god @IHateParentsEvenings I'm so sorry. I used to sort of like doing them only because frequently it was the only time I'd get to meet the parents (SEN school so majority of pupils arrived and left by taxi) and very often there'd be a bit of a lightbulb moment 'ahhhh so THAT'S why x is like that' But equally, working in SEN school I'd have 9, maybe 10 parents to see max.

I've just had my first return to face to face meeting as a parent. I could see the teachers' 'dinner' of crackers and some packets of cheese on his desk clearly untouched at nearly 7pm. I'm still regretting not thinking to ask him just to eat it while we were talking. Didn't occur to me until I left the room and I feel really selfish about that.

Teachers who are still going are amazing. I got out years ago and am so grateful to all the good ones who still keep at it.

I think you’re winding us up! 🤣

@Tolson they can book these anytime or On set days?

As head who is paid much more he should be available as much as teachers. That would be an outrageous expectation otherwise.

I really hope @Tolson is a wind up too cos otherwise her DH’s school is terrifying…

@Tolson sorry but agree with previous poster. Your comments are why teachers are leaving in droves.
@IHateParentsEvenings yanbu. And I raise you. The re introduction of face to face but with no appointments. So I could be talking the whole time or sat like a dickhead if hardly any come.

I hope tolson's posts are a joke. They show a complete lack of understanding of education and workers' appreciation.

@Tolson what a load of bollocks!

Erm- most teachers will meet with concerned parents outside of normal parents evenings. Is it you or your DH who thinks this is a ground breaking innovation

I know staff, including HTs, who have visited pupils homes. Usually the most vulnerable children. In guessing your DH will also be doing home visits if the clients request them??

Your post us hugely troublesome. There are presumably hundreds of children at your husbands school. If your husband rhetoric matches yours then I really fear for their education.

As a free school, are your DH's staff entitled to join a union @Tolson ?

So there's not a single teacher there who is also a parent? Or carer? Or has any sort of life outside the classroom?

Surely this is a woefully poor attempt at sarcasm?

Available at ALL times!
I’m in bed with Covid at the moment and just imagining little Jayden’s Mum ringing me up at home for an update just as I’m nodding off….
*@Tolson is definitely having a laugh on this thread!

@Tolson 'Competitive' starting salary of £19,500?? Now I know you're winding us up. National pay scale or not, Teachers start on more than £30k these days. None of them would work for that little money

Ahhh...yes. You did have me with the first few posts. Went too far with this one! 😂

🤣😂 nice try. It’s the head that I want to speak to at a random time not a class teacher. Normally it’s to complain about a class teacher or running of a school.

I’ve done that nonsense of calling a parent at 7pm. Sorry but I’m also a parent and I want to be able to parent my own child. One of the many many reasons why I no longer teach.

5 minutes is enough unless there are concerns but I’m firmly of the belief nothing at parents evening should be a surprise, so concerns should be raised prior to parents evening unless they have just cropped that week/day.

There is a competitive starting salary of around £19,500

Oh I see, it's that type of school. None of the 'teachers' have teaching qualifications.

You’re funny! 🤣🤣🤣

A competitive starting salary of £19000? Competing with what exactly? Certainly not the teachers on the main national scale. I love that it’s not his job to be available to parents. What a lot of nonsense.

@Tolson if parents booked a meeting with me at 6.45pm they'd see me sorting my own children's bathtime, by 7.30pm I'm sure they'd love to hear Smartest Giant in Town as a pre bedtime story. If their 'booked appointment' was 7.50pm, they'd almost certainly see me with a Malbec in hand.
You have genuinely got to be winding us all up. But as you're seemingly so proud of your husband's 'innovative' school, please do share the name of it with us, it would be great to know whete to avoid!

Serve😂