To be dreading face to face parents evening Thursday

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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.

Ok @Tolson you got us! Unions not necessary is definitely a step too far.

Not outside of London they don’t but it’s not as low as 19,500. It’s £25k outside of London and fringe

I think I've read some of Tolson's nonsense before. Different name, same posting style-with the intention to cause major frothing.

@Tolson The only way a starting salary of £19500 would be considered “competitive” is if all the teachers are unqualified. A starting salary in England for a teacher (excluding London and fringes) is £25K+

Do other countries have parents evenings? I honestly don't really see the point of them? What do they really achieve? Do they make a difference to anything?

Aren't engaged parents in touch with teachers about concerns throughout the year? If your child is doing well can't that be summarised in a report?

Uh huh 🤔

There is a competitive starting salary of around £19,500 which can then be topped up based on factors such as exam results, home visits and general contribution to school life through things like extra curricular clubs and marketing.

you nearly had me there for a moment but yes, agree with PP that you overstepped the mark here.

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@Tolson is your DH’s school Toby Young’s free school?

This thread upsets me so much. As a parent wr know so little about how our kids are doing in school. From 4 to 18 they go in.. they take shit and do the work and struggle socially...and as parents we know so little about their day and what they go through - socially as wrll as academically

And teachers begrudge 5 minutes??? Are you for real ?? And you dislike parents of the children you teach actually learning about how their child is doing.

Why not have a proper conversation maybe parents would be less stressed

This is one of the funniest things I've read on here in a long time. 😂

@Tolson ”learning journey facilitators”???! Oh please do us a favour and pee off!

Can parents book home visits with their child’s class teacher at the weekends as well-I’m sure many would find that more helpful?

Perhaps the teachers could offer some additional 1:1 tuition whilst they were there, too?

Can you tell us which county this free school is in?

It’s up to teachers to be flexible and meet parents’ needs and demands.

It's also up to the parents to meet the needs of their child, to ensure they are working and behaving themselves then there would be less acrimony, at the end of the day parents are the most important people in a child's life, yet they continue to foist things they don't like onto others.

One of my children struggles a lot and the parents meetings are just a joke. I can't possibly ask the sort of question I want to. I can't possibly get an understanding of how my child is doing.

I think teachers are over worked and underpaid so I'm very much on their side with a lot of issues. But working a 3 hour shift for parents evening twice a term is nothing....why not split it up over a few weeks and let parents have more time to talk.

I bet the staff are too intimidated to join a union as well.

@Tolson Shhh now! 🤣

Yeah whatever!
Hardly paying customers are they?

As a High School teacher I would interact with about 140-150 in a week, how would that work?

Actually, I used to dread parents' evening as a parent. (Btw DM was a teacher, so fully understand that parents' evening is probably a nightmare as I remember her arriving home very, very late.) By the time the teachers in DS's ( outstanding primary) school had trashed everything about him, I just wanted to go home and cry. Thank god secondary school was better. ( And he's now doing great at uni.)

I bet he doesn't care. When the teachers burn out I bet he just replaces them.

learning journey facilitators

Now I am 99% sure you're having a laugh!!!!

I thought this would be posted by a parent! Hope our school keeps parent eve online. No travel time. Appointments all run to time. No wasted time. For parents or teachers.

Encouraged to do home visits? What's that smell? Ah yes, verbal diarrhoea. No school is going to send a teacher into a stranger's home alone because if anything happens they are getting sued. And given this time comes out of the directed time budget, no headteacher can afford to have parents rock up for their own personal parents evening whenever in the year?

Totally not being unreasonable! As a parent who expects the best from my kids, I believe the respect between a child, a teacher and a parent is a three way tie, everyone has to contribute!
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