I’m trying to form a mental picture of a parent:
1) who had not previously been attending at least one parent-teacher conference a year, and
2) who would start attending in response to a threat of jail, and
3) whose involvement in their child’s education would have even the slightest positive effect.
No luck yet. Can anybody else help me out on this?
my father never went to parent teacher conferences. there was an open house kind of thing when we first moved there, but that was it.
he ran the business and would go to work @ 7am and get home between 7-9pm... 9a-4p on sat.
if there was a school thing to be attended to, my mom would deal with it. of course, my sister and I were good students, I was in all honors classes.
I’m fairly certain, my father sacrificing the business to listen to some lib pattle on would not have helped my education one bit. and a threat of jail time would have just encouraged us to move to a different school district.