Bad form all around

If you are a parent wondering if your behavior for a conference is in bad form might I offer some things not to do...

• email your child's teacher saying you don't know if it will be a phone conference or an in person conference to then have your child rat you out saying that you didn't have to work that day. 
• email your child's teacher 2 hours before conference saying you need to push back the meeting 30 min and you may be late and wonder if that's okay. 
• when agreed upon meeting is now at 1:30 and by 3:15 you still aren't there - you might be in bad form. 
• when you call up to the school at 3:30 to have your kids up front to be picked up by you - I recommend you tread lightly
• when you rush into school 5 min later complaining you have no time, classes and papers and make no mention of your child's conference that you missed... meeting me in a dark alley may be a blessing... just saying

 Sometimes when parents say that they are going to pull their student out of your school, they think it's a threat. Honestly sometimes it's really not. Sometimes we are silently chatting... "Do it!" Also   we will throw you the form and ask you to sign it and we will fill out the rest. We promise to be honest!

It may be in bad form to tell me to email you something you signed because that is where you keep your child's IEP stuff and then turn around and tell me that you don't check your email that often when you think I have done something wrong.

It may be in bad form if you tell the school not to call you about your child's behavior (throwing of chairs) because you are dealing with a medical issue. The medical issue: pregnancy.

It may be in bad for if you tell teachers that you don't know what to do for your son because it's not your problem as you are taking care of 3 other children at home at the moment.

Students - it may be in bad form to hit the principal even if he was trying get you into another room.

Principal- it may be in bad form to touch an upset student. Its worse form to say in front of him 10 days pending expulsion. It will only make him more mad. It will infuriate your staff if after the whole incident is over, you say that the child has no consequence and he can come back to school on Monday.  (cause him being in the office madder than a hornet wasn't the first time today)

Principal - it may be in bad form for to ask your SPED staff to help fill in for Friday night school when they have just been through a horrific week and two of them are hobbling as they walk out of the building with one getting x-rays on her way home.  We love our jobs really, but sometimes there is not enough money for us to stay an extra three hours.

One might think that it is just parents students and staff that entertain me. Believe it or not the general public sometimes entertains me just as much if not more. We have conferences tomorrow (yes on a Saturday, no I'm not happy but I digress) and I am remembered a story from I want to say about 2 years ago when we were doing our annual showcase (end of the year event kids demo what they know) The story goes something like this

A man walks into the building and up to the table that I am sitting at. He appears to be interested in what we are doing asks me about the school and the even that we are doing. You know all of the right questions. Finally he says that he's really not interested in the event, he stopped in because he saw that we were a school and open. See he and his friends, all in a band, were passing though town and stopped. He came in because he thought that since we were a school we would have showers in the locker room that he and his band mates could use as they were passing through.  Nope sorry we don't.