re: Meet the Teacher in high school is stupid

Shut up teacher sally. You aren’t that important

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Eat a dick,

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I don’t want to step on your toes

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Don’t they want the students to be the points of communication by that age. What’s the point of parents involving themselves meeting teachers still in freaking high school?

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The best schools always have high parental involvement. You want parents knowing exactly what’s happening in their local high school.

I went to Catholic High in BR. All my mom needed to know was that the Brothers of the Sacred Heart were running it. The disciplinarian was a Brother. And if you ever had Brother Gordian, you walked a very straight line in his class.

Yeah what's the point? If there is a problem they will call. I assume. Or if you had a problem you would get in contact with them. But school today doesn't seem to be anything like it was when I was in HS.

I always enjoyed meeting my kids’ teachers through high school for a few reasons.

One day, my kid might ask one of their teachers to write a recommendation letter to a college and I think a teacher is more likely to agree if they have met the parents and the parents showed interest in the job the teacher did.

In high school, we encouraged our kids to attend chaperoned trips to Europe. The chaperones are the same teachers we met and we would not worry as much about whether Mr Jones the Science teacher was a creep.

We tell the kids how important it is in college to have some sort of relationship with their professors outside class hours. Drop by the prof’s office and ask a few questions. I’d feel like a hypocrite if I gave that advice but didn’t follow it myself.

The coaches for their athletic teams would have mandatory meetings with parents. Coaches were also some sort of classroom teacher. We wanted our kids to see it was important to meet all the teachers because the reasons for the meetings were really the same - spell out the rules and expectations.

Last, what else do you have going on in your life that’s more important? You’re going to sit on your couch and stare at a screen. One day when your kids are gone, you’ll wish you spent more time with them, regardless of how much time you did spend with them. Don’t be self-important; your kids will appreciate it.

Good parents and good schools recognize partnership required to support a HS student, awareness of class expectations and deliverables, resources available, on and on.

It’s a 20min mtg per teacher for the whole year. High yield for all involved.

Perhaps you should just stay home.

Best of those "meet the teacher" nights I ever attended was for my oldest son attending Montgomery Catholic High as a Freshman.

The English teacher, Alice Ortega, who was wonderful but infamous for demanding a lot of hard and precise work, introduced herself as "Hi, I'm Ms O; everything you've heard about me is true."

My kids knew exactly where I stood with all their teachers.