Parent Teacher Conferences
Yesterday was Parent-Teacher Conference day. I don’t know why, but I always feel compelled to go buy an anti-school t-shirt to wear. Like a Pink Floyd shirt that says “We Don’t Need No Education!” or “Hey! Teacher! Leave Those Kids Alone!” Or maybe something like “My Kid Can Beat Up Your Honors Student”. Next time, I think I’ll stand out front of the school and sell shirts that read “Give Your Kids a Real Education… Homeschool”. Andrea thought it would be cool to show off lots of tattoos. Unfortunately, we only have one between both of us…
And I never know how to react either. The teacher usually says something like, ”Your child is the most brilliant, most well-behaved student that I’ve ever had the pleasure to instruct.” How am I supposed to respond? Smile, and nod? “Surely, you must have my child confused with someone else… you do realize we’re talking about Jett”? “I know, she gets it all from me?” Feign embarassment? I just don’t know!
Seriously though, we were looking forward to the conferences for two reasons: one, Jett is in kindergarten and we were curious what his teacher would have to say; and two, Jada skipped second grade so we wanted to know how she was acclimating to the challenge of third grade.
Jett is doing very well in kindergarten, as we thought he would. He’s even starting to read a little. His teacher had nothing but wonderful things to say about him.
Jada is also doing very well. Apparently she is having no trouble with skipping a grade, although it’s taking a while to adjust to being challenged. She’s never really been challenged before. But Jada is stepping up to the plate, and knocking the ball out of the park. She’s been making 100’s on most of her work, including their first unit test in math. And she received mostly 4’s on her report card, except for 3’s in writing and PE. (Scale of 1 to 4… no letter grades for some reason…) We figured she might struggle for a few months, but would catch up with everone else by the end of the year. Apparently, it didn’t take long at all.
Love the picture:) I knew there was something I was forgetting all those years I went to Parent Teacher Conference’s. It was getting tatoo’s and wearing a low cut tank top.
Wouldn’t my kids have loved that one:)