Maybe we should just let the Feds run our schools. After all they are controlling what food is served, what tests we use (that drives the curriculum) and how to evaluate our teachers. Those are just a few reforms brought to us by the U.S. Department of Education vs local parents. (Remember, we are supposed to be a locally controlled state)
Today we see that a school in NY is changing parent/teacher conferences to Student Led Conferences. See the letter sent home to parents below.
This was posted in a forum by a parent and here were some of the replies from other parents:
- it’s unbelievable the stress these little ones will experience being put on the spot – if they are shy or introverted or……..6 uughhhh!
- that’s because the kid is teaching himself pretty much!
- Oh my God how friggin stupid
- I would leave my child at home and explain that I – the parent – want and expect a parent/teacher conference.
- We had student led conferences also (for the 1st time) this year. It accomplished nothing because they had my son read off a questionnaire he filled out. He is in itinerant support but mainstreamed for HFA. It didn’t allow me time to address issues with the teacher because we were allowed 15 minutes. We actually ran long and had 30 but it didn’t allow me to talk with the teacher. Our notice said the principal wanted “student led” conferences. I didn’t realize it was a common core idea.
- Unmitigated stupidity.
- UUUGGGHH!!! What I would like to do( but would not put my son in that predicament) is prep my son and tell him to tell me at the conference how Common Core is taking up so much time and how he is forced to prepare for a test he is not taking…and how fast paced it is and why they should not be doing compensation mental multiplication the same week there are doing estimation multiplication!!!
Thinking this is limited to NY, we found out today that no, this is also happening in some NH schools. Read a note from a parent in NH:
In our middle school here at Kingswood, there is a team called VISTA. Our middle school students are on Teams. We have 2 7th grade teams and 2 8th grade teams. VISTA is a combined 7th and 8th grade team. They don’t follow what the other teams do at all. I have teacher friends on the other teams and they say VISTA is almost like a charter school.