Mini - AIBU: parents evening

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I taught 6 lessons back to back today, then spoke to 44 sets of parents at parents eve. I’m a secondary teacher for a core subject and have 2 Y11 groups. AIBU to think that is just too many parents to see in one evening?! Every slot but 1 in my schedule was filled 🤯

What a pity the general public don't realise this.

I hope you're relaxing this evening and you get to sleep and don't run conversations through your head.

Parents evenings are brutal. And near pointless.

A cup of tea and some telly has calmed my brain a bit, but I just can’t get my head around the amount of talking I have had to do today 😆

It's days like that that make me regret my life choices..

Especially if you haven't managed to get lunch in as well because you've had to work across lunch........

Brutal day, deffo too many parents to see

That is mad. How long was your evening to fit all those in???

4 - 7:30pm, with a few parents who asked to see me without an appt. Didn’t feel I could say no when I was sat there

Yeah that's crazy. No other job would expect this of you. I have them next week. I'm a part-time teacher but still have 60 sets of parents and 6 hours of meetings over 2 nights. Don't get paid overtime. Dreading it.

It's mad isn't!

I'll be similar on Monday - HoD of a core subject.

On duty at 8am and then my day is pretty much non stop. I have 1 free but have a learning walk to do. Then parents eve 4-7.30pm. I have 2 classes and every single slot is booked. I have a ten minute break scheduled half way through buy that's it.

Parents evenings absolutely wear me out!

I have the same problem coming up next term. I teach 5 out of 6 (50) minute periods but then have 2 after school activities not finishing until 6 pm and then 42 potential parents to speak to.

Online for 5 minutes and 1 minute between. It is just not possible.

The parents complain the appointments aren’t long enough.

We don't even have a minute between appointments online; as soon as you've finished one, you're basically being late for the next one. It's madly intense, you don't even have time to look at any notes.

Same here with the online appointments and then some parents complaining they are too short. They are usually the type who would hog a teacher for 20 minutes, oblivious to anyone else, in the olden days of in person meetings! Frustrating to both other parents, (having been on that side of it many times) and hard to move on as a teacher. Online is better for that reason, but it's so draining.

They are so draining. I had a parents evening on Monday - fortunately a small nurture class so only 12 students and 9 parents booked in. Then a school trip that ended up being longer than expected due to traffic and I am exhausted today.

We have our year 11 mocks this week with my subject being the last exam. Marking due on Thursday morning!