who's the parent?

So, today was parent teacher conference day and I had about one-third the "customers" that I normally do. I wonder if that means something.

One was especially interesting, the boy is not passing my class and the mother was trying to blame his modifications, so I pulled them out of my desk and went through them with her--nice try, but the blame doesn't lay with me not giving the kid as many chances to be successful as I can. In all honesty, the kid doesn't want to be at school and is lazy as all get-out. There's nothing I can do to make American Studies any more interesting than I already do.

It seems like it's never the parents I need to see who come, anyhow.


One very nice thing was when a mother stopped in to tell me how much her daughter thinks of me and how I have truly saved her daughter's life. She came w-a-y out of her way to talk to me and it meant a lot. The mom got emotional talking about it. And another parent got choked up when I talked about his son's outstanding performance in class.

Anyhow, I could ramble on a lot but instead I'll stop.

What if this is as good as it gets?