Taylor the Teacher

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What an exhausting day! Got up at 5:30, am still working. In addition to Long Range Plans, Syllabi, and Emergency Lesson Plans that were due today, it seems that somebody forgot I am supposed to be teaching my classes.

The school year is one week old, and we already had our open house. Turnout was as disappointing as ever. About 20 students were represented by parents tonight. This is out of about 145 students. This is high school, so maybe the students don’t need mommy standing over them all the time. Parents apparently think so.

But what gets me is that the parents who didn’t show up to Open House will be the ones calling for conferences, asking me to stay late and come in early, to talk about things that we could have nipped in the bud tonight. I don’t mind conferences for real issues, but it just seems rude to not come to Open House for YOUR CHILD and then just expect that I’ll drop everything to meet with you after school.