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Date: 11 December 2007 07:05:13
1. Get your daughter to make her appointments as late as possible (and so be told by half the staff that they will have gone by the point you arrive).
2. Miss your train connection and thus be even later at the school.
3. Recieve a phone call from random stranger to say they have picked up the phone your daughter has lost. (Which is why you couldn't notify her of missed connection and seen if you could have done appointments by phone).
4. Rush in completely out of breath and spend half of first appointment trying to compose yourself rather than listening, finally having to say "and which subject is this".
5. Very obviously make a distinction between the importance of academic and vocational subjects and making the poor art teacher feel like she has just arrived from Mars when she suggests your child takes Art as their technology subject rather than ICT. (Within this reinforce childs view that you have certain expectations of what are the proper subjects they should choose for their options later in the year).
6. Due to lateness fail to speak to English or Maths tutor (or indeed a range of other teachers).If you particularly need to speak to Maths teacher because you are v. worried by introduction of Functional element to GCSE's swear v. loudly about fact you've missed him and then recieve disapproving looks from other teachers.
7. Spend most of your time with form tutor talking about somebody else, but both being very professional and not really talking about that person (i.e. no names and talking in v. general sense about influences and close friends).
8. Send your daughter over to her RS teacher, who is obviously ready to go home, with message, "mum's running late do you need to speak to her or can I give her a message"
9. Be so absorbed in fitting in as many people as possible (as public transport fares on all this have cost you just over £10) that you completely blank v. nice other parents who are trying to say hi! as you rush between tables.
10. Keep History teacher, who you didn't actually have an appointment with but wanted to see beyond the official end time of parents evening so he is about second last person to get out the door.