Comments on: Back to School Night Hassles http://blog.connected.info/2009/09/21/back-to-school-night-hassles/ Collaborative Learning Communities Tue, 13 Apr 2010 03:31:04 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Tom Dibble http://blog.connected.info/2009/09/21/back-to-school-night-hassles/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Tom Dibble Mon, 19 May 2008 20:11:45 +0000 http://connected.info/2007/09/11/back-to-school-night-hassles/#comment-28 The same problem exists in the lower grades too. Our elementary school has all parents sit in their kid's desk chair (highly uncomfortable for parents) to get an overhead projector-driven presentation on what will happen in the class and walk-through of paper handouts. Following that, you can get in line to talk with the teacher. The only thing I learn from the current approach is that if our kids had to sit in chairs too small for their bodies and their teachers taught from powerpoints all day, I'd need to be pulling them out of that school fast! They accommodate multiple kids in school by having two sessions, but for some of us that still isn't enough and we still have to divide-and-conquer. I'd much rather receive the documents in an email or on DVD, review them at home in a chair which fits my adult-sized body, and then have a meet/greet with the other parents and teacher scheduled on a "convenient" night o the week. Of course, at least 75% of the parents would never show up to the meet/greet, but that's about the percentage who just leave after the presentation anyway. The same problem exists in the lower grades too. Our elementary school has all parents sit in their kid’s desk chair (highly uncomfortable for parents) to get an overhead projector-driven presentation on what will happen in the class and walk-through of paper handouts. Following that, you can get in line to talk with the teacher.

The only thing I learn from the current approach is that if our kids had to sit in chairs too small for their bodies and their teachers taught from powerpoints all day, I’d need to be pulling them out of that school fast!

They accommodate multiple kids in school by having two sessions, but for some of us that still isn’t enough and we still have to divide-and-conquer.

I’d much rather receive the documents in an email or on DVD, review them at home in a chair which fits my adult-sized body, and then have a meet/greet with the other parents and teacher scheduled on a “convenient” night o the week. Of course, at least 75% of the parents would never show up to the meet/greet, but that’s about the percentage who just leave after the presentation anyway.

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