10 Things I Will Not Do in a Parent-Teacher Conference
- Give the teacher exorbitant gifts for no apparent reason.
- Stare off over the teacher's right shoulder, avoiding all eye contact.
- Pretend to care about learning, but actually just want to know how my kid can get an A.
- Vaguely tell the teacher that I'm sure my child "has had trouble warming up to other teachers" in the past.
- Smile and nod as my husband does all the talking.
- Take as absolute truth anything that my dramatic 14-year-old claims to be true.
- Fail to show up for the meeting.
- Come to the meeting when my child has an A and then ask why the teacher doesn't give A-pluses.
- Watch the clock continually, but fail to leave when appropriate pauses arise in an effort to get my full 10 minutes with the teacher.
- Get through the entire meeting before aggressively bringing up my real concern, and then throw it in at the end, extending the conference 7 minutes into the next family's time.
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