Tomorrow the small people won’t be in school as it has been classed as a “Progress Day” and therefore they get the day off as the teachers are too busy conducting parent/teacher interviews.
Now, I don’t know about you, but when I was at school it was always an after school thing. It was plonked onto the end of a random Wednesday, or Thursday or whatever and after a hard day mooching about at school you got dragged out again with your parents to hear Mrs Jones drone on about how you were doing fine/needed to switch your ears on more and listen/generally keep on doing as you’re doing and get on with your work type crap.
Nowadays they manage to make a whole day out of it. Sheesh. I’d have LOVED that when I was at school. It’s an extra random holiday day tacked on, isn’t it?!
If I’d have been told “Off you go out and play for a bit, just make sure you’re back in time for the five minutes we have up at school later,” I’d have thought it was my birthday or something.
They’ll no doubt be in their element as they don’t have to go to school and instead can just stay and boot a football about outside instead.
Never mind the whole day long thing, it’s a parent’s EVENING. Giving it a fancy new name and tarting it up doesn’t make it any less so…. 
(I’ve now included this post in the rant fest link up over here)
I’m sure teachers will defend this but I think that is absolutely ridiculous. What is it with all these extra days off; teacher training included. We had none of that years ago. I was at school in the 70′s and my parents went to school after 6pm for parents “evening”. Having another day off for this is just ludicrous. What angers me is how we parents are not supposed to take our kids out of school to go on holiday yet many holidays can be used as a cultural trip. Okay, not beach holidays in Majorca admittedly, but you know what I mean. Then this happens and it’s like one rule for them and another rule for us. Bloody stupid.
CJ x
Our high school does this and it’s called something ridiculous like ‘Target Setting Day’ and they have them three times a year. An absolute joke if you ask me! So not only are you stuck with a five minute appointment in the middle of the day, you also have childcare to find for the whole day. I honestly don’t know how working parents cope with all the time children have off school in addition to the weeks and weeks of holidays.
They were still in the evenings when I was at school, but near the end the name was changed to Student Review Evening. Everyone who didn’t work for the school still called it Parents Evening though!