Parent Teacher Conferences

What are they good for?

We had parent/teacher conferences for the girls last week. Nothing unexpected came up. So, my question is this. What are these conferences supposed to accomplish? I can understand them if your child isn't doing as well as expected and you have some questions, but it just seems like an ego stroke to me. I came out of both of them with no more insight about the girls than I had when I went into them.

I guess I should be thankful that the girls perform as well as they do. Sometimes I think that they need more of a challenge. For that I suppose I'll have to come up with something on my own since the teachers don't seem to have any ideas about how to do that.

I do have one last comment about the conference. I think that I'm invisible. I noticed that whenever we talked to the teachers that they seemed to speaking to Angela and not pay any attention to me. Not sure why this is. Maybe someone has some ideas...