On The End of The Grading Period

I spent most of Wednesday, Thursday and Friday emailing back and forth with a student athlete’s mother.
I don’t want to get into the details of WHY I’M RIGHT, but trust me. I am. And she’s wrong.
But I caved. The student’s principal was involved into the ridiculous conversation, and the parent even went up to school [...]

So It Begins… Parent Conference Season

Does everyone have this wave of parent contacts at the end of the first grading period?
I had a parent phone call Tuesday, a student conference and a parent conference Wednesday, and two phone calls Thursday.  Pretty much they all went the same way:
Parent: “Why is my son/daughter failing?”
Me: “Because he/she is not doing the work.”
Parent: [...]