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I Need an Attitude Adjustment
Nov. 13th, 2017 06:21 pmI hate parent conferences. HAAAATE them. And I don’t know why. Parents don’t come in and yell at me. They aren’t mean. I always put things in positive ways and give advice how to help their students at home. Everyone seems to go away happy.
But I don’t want to do them.
Part of it is the stress of waiting. Waiting for parents to show up. Waiting to see if everyone is going to show up. Waiting for a translator to come so I can talk to parents who don’t speak English. Waiting waiting waiting. And then the frantic calling people who don’t show up to try to reschedule. It doesn’t happen much, but it did happen today and I have a feeling it’ll happen at least once more, because I never heard back from one parent. So, it’s not the conferences so much that I hate, it’s the stress around the conferences.
It’s okay, though. It’s two weeks out of the year. Twenty-four meetings, five days. I can do this. And the light at the end of the tunnel? Thanksgiving break.
Four more days.
But I don’t want to do them.
Part of it is the stress of waiting. Waiting for parents to show up. Waiting to see if everyone is going to show up. Waiting for a translator to come so I can talk to parents who don’t speak English. Waiting waiting waiting. And then the frantic calling people who don’t show up to try to reschedule. It doesn’t happen much, but it did happen today and I have a feeling it’ll happen at least once more, because I never heard back from one parent. So, it’s not the conferences so much that I hate, it’s the stress around the conferences.
It’s okay, though. It’s two weeks out of the year. Twenty-four meetings, five days. I can do this. And the light at the end of the tunnel? Thanksgiving break.
Four more days.
