Kidlets

Oooooh.....What a morning.

Firstly yesterday afternoon I have to phone my daughter's school because I find out it's school profile day when we get to see and chat with the form tutor BUT my DD's form tutor tells my daughter she's not going to be there. I WANT TO TALK TO SOMEONE WHO KNOWS MY DAUGHTER! NOT A SOMEONE!

To cut a very long story short we have been to the school and we've spoken to the deputy head of year rather than a PE teacher who was covering the class and has never met my daugther. Grrrr.

The profile? Not bad but not good but on the other hand what we expected as we had spoken to class teachers. For those of you who have parents, you know what it's like to play the parenting game and you go along to these meetings and nod your head in the right places and smile when the teacher says nice things and look stern when the teacher says things you think you should look stern about but it's when you get out you start thinking about what you need to do?
Before we went in, we had such deep concerns because of what we had heard when speaking so a couple of teachers. A couple of departments (it appears) are failing apart. What do we do? Do we put our child in another state school which is not as good academically? Do we raid a bank and put our child into a private school? Really we do not have a choice because financially the costs are too high and we would not be able to support our kids through college should that be their choice. My son already knows he wants to go on into further education and we need to be fair on both of them. It's so hard.....

So anyway, what is rather odd is this, there are subjects that my daughter is doing well in and subjects that she is not doing well in and never the twain shall meet? French, Math, food tech, Textiles and PE are all fantastic and well above average expectations and her own expecations. History (she hates it), geography (no reason because she likes it), English (Oh hell, BIG problems with the teachers and need to speak to head of dept there). There's the inbetweenies too. All in all a fair profile and we must not complain but talk to the teachers who have had stern words;-

So why are we as parents so concerned?

Are we expecting too much? No.......Just love our beautiful clever......very good at Math daughter!