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

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In this day and age of email contact with teachers (secondary school) is parents a evening an outdated pita for teachers ?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

I think parent's evenings are a waste of teacher's time too for most children! I have been to every one but just get "they are doing really well, top set, no problems etc" then they ask if you have questions and I never do because I have all the information I need from the written report. So we smile politely and say thanks very much nice to see you etc and it has never taken more than 3 minutes ( what do people talk about for 10 whole minutes?!)

At DSs college they decide who they invite to parents evening
other parents do not get the booking link
being invited is not a good sign
not attending once invited does not go down well with them

We had ds1's Y10 parents' evening last night. There was the usual scramble to book the few available slots online beforehand, and as usual the teachers we really needed to see were booked up before we got there (and we were pretty quick!). Most of the appointments were fairly pointless and nothing was said that we didn't already know. The teachers just asked ds1 how he thought it was going and then spouted a prepared spiel about the new GCSEs and how confusing everything is.

I resent the shitness of school reports and parents' evenings. I think the kids deserve better. It wasn't this formulaic and pointless when I was at school.