When they figure out a way to quantify the father that came to my table at Parent/Teacher conferences, after his wife had talked to me about grades, just to thank me for “bringing out the best in my son”, I’ll be on board 100%.
Test scores simply do not tell the whole story.
3 days until Parent/Teacher conferences, and I come down with a cold. Bleah!
Here’s to spending the weekend in bed so I can be as close to 100% as possible for next week.
Parent/Teacher conferences were this week. Went quite well, not screaming parents, no crying students. And a few of the parents I needed to talk to even showed up. If it weren’t for the three days of no sleep followed by a half day of teaching, I’d even say they were enjoyable.
But, in it’s infinite wisdom, our district decided to give the secondary teachers their compensation day the week before the conferences. Usually we have a 3 day weekend following the two 14 hour days, but this year they decided to combine the elementary and secondary days off into the same day, even though we have our conferences one week apart.
This means that instead of having one day to recuperate from those two long days and then the usual 2 day weekend to do my usual weekend stuff, I have only two days to recuperate, do laundry, clean the house, clean the dishes, fix what needs to be fixed on the cars and relax.
I know it seems like a little thing, and maybe it is, but I guarantee that it is going to make a difference in my energy level come Monday.
Now I’m off to check out all the shiny things on Thematic Photographic.
And I had only one parent that was mad at me, because I accused his daughter of texting while in class. I apologized for making that assumption, but pointed out that she has to expect that reaction when she sits in a hot room, wearing a hoodie and twiddling her thumbs inside the pocket of the hoodie. That was about it, except I found out that the room the Foreign Language teacher moved into is in a cell phone dead zone, about 90% of phones do not work in there. It has no windows, but I still want to arm wrestle her for it - cell phones are currently one of the biggest teaching pains in the @$$. I even looked online for a cell phone blocker one time, and was all ready to fork out the $200 for one, until I checked it out on the internet and found out that I just might find Homeland Security at my classroom door one day, and from then on when asked, the administration would be required to answer "Mr. Who? No we never had a teacher here by that name."