Parent-Teacher Conferences

one public school we belonged to shot for the same thing, the school had very high expectations, there was a lot of enthusiasm and excitement for every little thing there, you should have seen how they prepared for state testing, Lol. their teacher confernce attendance was almost always 100% and they used that figure to demonstrate that they were a school with 100% parent support and involvement.

It's the teachers' union, so indirectly, I guess it's money. There are 150 kids per grade in my kids' school, so for example, my 6th grader's math teacher has 150 students. Even at 10-15 minutes each, that's a lot of conferences, and the union only allows for two evenings of conferences. It's not enough. But if parents can't get a time, they can always meet with teachers during their office hours (after school) by scheduling an appointment, so it's not as if they're unable to communicate with the teachers. When my kids were in ES, there were always enough slots, but it's just not an expectation in MS/HS that every parent is going to have teacher conferences twice a year. All of the academic information is available online, and parents get weekly emails notifying them if their child has a missed assignment or failing grade.