Parent Teacher Conference

Parent teacher conference is where my great success story took place and boosted my self esteem a little bit. We had parent teacher conference two nights in a row and it seem like the time went by so slow. I had around twenty five parents some see me asking about their children. As I was sitting there a sixth graders parent came up to me and began to ask questions about their child's class. As soon as the parent walked up and told me that she was a parent of a sixth grader I knew things were about to go down hill, but I was completely wrong. The parent began to explain that she had no idea what I had been saying or doing in the class, but it was working with her child. We had just finish the lesson on keeping healthy teeth and skin and she continued to explain how her child was brushing, flossing, and washing their face every night. After the parent told me this I do not think I quit smiling for about five minutes. The next parent came with their child which was in my accelerated reading homeroom. In this homeroom the students have to gain so many points by reading and taking tests on accelerated reading books. This particular child had not read a book or taken a test, so I was explaining to the parent why he had a zero percent in my class. As I kept talking I could just see more and more  anger in the parent's eyes. The parent sat there for a minuted then looked at her child and told him "he could forget the I phone for his birthday", then  looked at me and said  "he would be taking a test on Monday". I felt bad at first, but then my senses came and I realized all the child had to do was read a book.