Oct 11th, 2007
Students and Teachers
We had our first parent/teacher conference with Jason’s teacher last night. You can only trust your children when they tell you things about school . . . I mean, we know our son and what he’s like, so we can of course make some judgements about what he tells us. But our meeting with Mr. K last night bordered on funny 
Here are some samples of what Jason told us throughout this first quarter and what we heard at the parent/teacher conference.
Jason: We’re only on the letter P for getting our special fun time for being quiet. It’s so annoying that David and Gabby talk all the time when they’re supposed to be quiet. They’re the only two that always make us lose our letters.
Mr. K: Jason got this lower score because of his listening skills. He certainly is a talker!
Jason: Mr. K. did a desk dump today. My desk didn’t get dumped. He said my desk was the cleanest one.
Mr. K: Did Jason tell you about the desk dump? His didn’t get dumped but it’s certainly on the edge. It’s one of the worst ones.
Jason: I had to sit on the line at recess for 5 minutes today. Mr. Krich said I was answering too loudly in class. But I’ve never gotten in trouble before. (this was the day I got a note sent home from the teacher)
Mr. K: Yah. He’s a talker. He has to sit on the line at recess about 3 times a week. His mind is just going constantly and he’s just not mature enough yet to be able to stop his mouth from talking.
Jason: I’m always finished with my work first in class and I do a good job. Then I just sit down and work on the other things we’re allowed to work on while we wait for the other kids.
Mr. K: Jason thinks that he has to finish first no matter what. That’s why he got this lower score here. He can do the work, but he needs to take his time and think about his answers. And when he’s finished, he needs to work on the list of things I’ve written on the board and not bother his friends who haven’t finished yet.
So there you have it . . . what boys say and what teachers say We of course sat down and went over his report card with him and explained what Mr. K said and also explained that while he did well in most things, he needs to really work hard on taking his time and not the talking when he’s not supposed to so he can try to raise some of those scores.
Ahhhhh - his first foray into report cards. Only 10 more years to go!
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His interpretations are quite funny!!
This is great! I would like to do one on “What Husband Says” and “What Really Happened.” That could be a good one, too!
First- thank you from teacher everywhere for supporting the school and talking to your children about the areas they need to work on!! That is always a relief to me when I have supportive parents. It is funny how kids don’t see things the same way adults do….many time they really don’t see what they are doing is not quite the right thing. So glad you have a good attitude about it though! But, wow! Report cards already! I don’t have conferences until November.
Very interesting… But familiar. It will be interesting to see if you are still using smiley faces in about 3 years! Yea, I have a 13 year old and have heard this same scenario since she was in pre-school (some things never change)!
She always has an interesting counter-argument on how it wasn’t her but EVERYBODY else!
Maybe she’ll go into politics…