If you missed your kid's parents' night because you were on a term time holiday, would you expect the teacher to allow another appointment when you return?

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Just that really. Parents night same week every year and parents informed 2 months in advance.

YABU-yes the teacher should arrange to see you at an alternative time on your return.

YANBU-no, you booked and holiday and missed it so that's on you!

Yeah, we've not much on in teaching, we'll do extra parents evening whenever 😳😳

No

No

No
And yabvvu to take children out of school during term time

By law they have to yes if there is a court order that protects one parent from the other. They simply schedule 2 appointments for the child.
I expect school to also adhere to that as the law requires. More work or not.

This is a really controversial opinion but if you are booking term time holidays you aren’t arsed anyway imo. Asking others to use their free time to accommodate you is taking the mick.

I have said several times I AM NOT talking about parents where there is abuse or domestic violence, obviously that is the minority of separated parents.

Hell no! Currently-my choice-I have a full time teacher student, I’m organising a foreign residential and am at full capacity with the timetable, as well as being a union rep, spent all of my lunch hour with a colleague who needed advice and had no free lessons. I managed a call to a parent who wants to discuss the trip, at this stage (notice of interest) god knows why. Anybody who missed parents’ evening would stand little chance of a meeting. Our heads of year would normally request a form to be completed at the max.

Absolutely not. Our school policy is not to do this; nor do we offer two appointments to separated parents (that'd be around half the school) unless the HT is aware of, say, a DV situation.
This should not be down to individual teachers to decide, either. That would lead to some parents getting their re-arranged meeting if the teacher doesn't particularly mind, and others not, which isn't fair. The HT should make this decision (and say no).

People have lives ffs.
Offering 10min slot once a year is hardly an extra mile.

This is an interesting point. If I were a paying parent I would definitely have that expectation. However, I have taught in 2 private prep schools and my wage was the same as when I taught in state schools, my day was much longer because I had to do after school clubs and I had to work Saturdays. So I would be fuming to have to give up more time for extra parents evenings.

Tricky if you have 3 groups as I did last year, year 7, 90 kids. Doubling up for whatever reason would be a no and again, the head of year would probably ask for a form to be completed.

@LondonFox no, it's cheeky and entitled - you had your chance, why should I do extra work because you wanted a cheap holiday ?

Yeah teachers have lives too and you are referring to one parent! There are roughly 30 sets of parents from each class!

And teachers have lives too ffs

No. The best you can hope for is a bit of email feedback.

"Offering 10min slot once a year is hardly an extra mile."
A ten-minute slot once a year, for YOU. What about all the other parents who'd jump on the bandwagon?
And anyway, it never is "just" 10 minutes when it's re-arranged for after school. We had a big issue a number of years back when parents used to opt for an after-school slot on a different day because they reckoned they'd get longer. Which often ended up happening. So it's been stopped altogether now.

But you are saying you expect me to tell you I am a victim of DV and need a separate appointment.
People wouldn't ask unless they needed it. Don't shame parents into begging.

Absolutely not.

Information about what is being covered by your child’s class that term should already be available through a newsletter or website, so as long as the school is fulfilling that duty then it’s up to parents to find activities for their child to do while on holiday. It seems rude and entitled to ask to add to someone else’s workload for the sake of your cheaper holiday, which is already going to have an impact on your class, however small, when the child gets back.

I can’t believe it’s ’becoming more and more common’ when taking term time holidays is getting harder with stricter rules and fines.

I feel like it would depend on how much the appointment was needed. We are very engaged parents of an able student, and we don’t really need a parents night appointment in or out of the normal time, but a kid with sketchy parents might need it, much as it sticks in your craw to rearrange it (and it would in mine!)

No, but sometimes they will send an email.

"People wouldn't ask unless they needed it."

I can assure you they would and they do. We were swamped and many were taking the piss.

What kind of form would need completing?