Has anyone else noticed that Parent/teacher consultations in UK Secondary Schools are a complete shambles?

Can I join in if I'm not in the UK?

My parents had to go speak with my math teacher when I was in grade 9 (over a decade ago now :-s). I was working a year ahead in a school that only had students in grades 7-9 - their solution had been to give me a self-study package and stick me in a grade 9 math class, with the understanding that the teacher of that class could help me if I got stuck. The teacher, however, decided the best thing to do with me was to sit me at a counter in the back corner facing a wall so my work wouldn't distract his other students. Needless to say, my parents were there on parent-teacher night.

When they arrived, his was actually the only desk with a line -- and it went right across the gymnasium. Appointment times were out the window at that point - he was so behind that nobody was bothering with them; they stood and waited their turn. At 6:45 when the interviews were supposed to be over, he still had a line of about ten parents waiting to speak with him - so what did he do? He stood up, said "sorry, time's up" and walked out of the room (and the building). That, ladies and gentlemen, is dedication to your work.

Just as an aside - my parents ended up going to the school principal the next day and had me removed from his class - I just started again with my year-mates the next year.

Not only did he not lose his job (or face any disciplinary action my folks ever heard of), but eleven years later he stills holds the same position at the same school.

It's mayhem, isn't it?

My daughter's school is being rebuilt so they don't have a hall at the moment - so we ended up running between classrooms. I'm not sure we had any appointment at the right time or in the right order.

What we did was to split up so we could effectively do two appointments at once. You say "we" - why didn't you do that?

My son's school is ruthless. They have a prefect sitting on the stage and he rings a bell every five minutes. That's it. If you want to talk to a teacher for longer, you have to make an appointment at some other time.

It was so so different in the 1960's (I left school in 1971).

A minority of parents these days are more badly behaved and rude than the worst behaved 1960's children.

The rabble is not the fault of the administration, but that of the parents who all think they have the right to be attended to first. After a whole day controlling unruly children, teachers have to spend their evening controlling unruly parents. PTA was a pleasure for both parents and teachers back in the day, but school staff now dread the event

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