Year nine options evening,very rude parents

[mumeeee]

I have just ben to my daughters options evening and was discusted by the way some of the parents behaved.
The evening was in two parts a short talk about the options for year 10 and then an opptunity to talk to the teachers about the subjects.
Well some parents didn't want to listen to the talk and were talking together and complaining they weren'table to habe the options form and booklet until after the talk.
Then when the teacher who was explaining about the options was trying to answer a parents question a lot of the parents got up and rushed on mass to get out of the door to go to the other room. The teacher had already said that the next part of the evening would be after the question time had fineshed.
These are the same parents who complain about tenagers behavior if that is the example they show them, then what do they expect?
Ther was no ned to rush as there were plenty of leaflets available for each subject and the teachers were willing to answer everyone who spoke to them. Sorry rant over
now we have the next couple of weks to help our daughter decide what she wants to do. As she is dyspraxic there will be some subjects she'll find difficult so we have to encourage her to take thse that she enjoys and will have at least some success with.

it's awful isn't it? I've had parents and kids answering their mobile phones whilst talking to me at a parents evening!

still, it's parents like you that make up for the ones that don't know how to behave !

On the one hand the parents' behaviour sounds very rude. However, some people (myself included)do find it easier to take in information in writing rather than picking the relevant bits out of a talk, and the school should surely have realised that and catered for that group by allowing them to have the options booklet and subject leaflets first. It sounds rather petty refusing to give them out. Out of interest, how useful was the talk?

I have mothers in the preschool music class that I take ds to that talk all the way through the teacher doing the hellos (except when their little cherub is being helloed) and then wonder why their children don't take turns and wait quietly. It starts early.

threebob, same thing happens at my local library's storytime - a bunch of the mums sit in the circle with their tots, nattering away to each other and then wonder why their kids won't pay attention to the story.

It irritates the hell out of me .

Hallgerda.The talk was useful as they were explaining how to fill in the options forms and some changes to the curriculem. Also thetre was an opptunity to ask general qeustions at the end of the talk. What I found particulary rude was that a lot of parents gave no respect to the teacher who was in the middle of answering a parents question.
Thet didn't actualy refuse to give out the options form they just weren't aviable untill after the talk. No one actually asked for them before hand they just complained they didn't have them.
The options form and booklets were for parents and children to read at home during the next couple of weeks so there will be plenty of tie to digest all the informstion.
The talk only lasted about 15 minutes.

Thanks, mumeee. Yes, the other parents do sound rude. I still think it would be easier to understand a talk on how to fill in a form if you have it in front of you. But if you want something you should ask politely for it rather than complaining that you haven't got it (as I keep telling my children ).

threebob, you have brought back memories of ghastly tinies' music classes. I do agree that if you choose to take your child to a class with endless "hellos", it is only polite to sit quietly through them. However, I was quite relieved to find that DS2 was not going to sit there politely so I didn't have to go any more!

In case you were wondering, I am of course quite excruciatingly polite .

I was at a pre year 7 evening last year. The parents of the year 6 kids who would be starting year 7 attended, along with their children. At the start of the evening the head give a welcome chat. The current year 7 kids 'model' the uniform, and pe kids and the parents are then sent, with kids to join with the relevant form tutors for more information.

During the heads 5 minute 'welcome' parents were chatting with each other! And they wonder why their kids are rude in class!

I've know parents get up and wlak out of a school concert when their child has done their part. It happens quite often

I forgot to mentoin there the talkl included a power point presentation that showed the form. So there was something for us to look at and we were able to follow on scrreen hoe to fill the form in.

Crumbs! No excuse then!