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Tuesday, October 11, 2005
‘What am I to do?’
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A teacher posted this on the thread about parent-teacher conferences:
“I don’t know how PTC went at other schools but our district had PTC day last Friday and it was a flop. One of our teachers managed to get two of the local radio stations to announce PTC day last Wednesday and Thursday.
Our home school facilitator sent the announcement to the 32 churches in our area (My pastor annouced it the last 2 sundays and the last two bible studies). The result was 1 parent showed up for our hall of 12 teachers.
In addition to the school’s efforts, I sent home progress reports via the mail the previous week with the announcement enclosed. This only resulted in 23 returned reports and I was called in by my principal because 11 parents had called to register their children’s complaints.
Being in a school that is fighting to meet AYP (3rd year missing) it is frustrating. The weekly telephone calls are virtually no use since most of the parents that you can contact are those of the students that are doing well and the other parents want to support their child’s reasons for failing or being disruptive. “She’s cutting your class because she says yo’’re too hard. I want her out of your class …”
What am I to do?”
Any ideas for this teacher?
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