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The parent-teacher meeting: A descriptive

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  How many of us have had the circumstance of having to attend a PTM? And how many of us have genuinely wanted another one to come. How many of us agree that it is, in essence, aimed at the collective improvisation of the roles allocated to schooling and parenting or just another of those juicy gossip sessions-just with a more professionally appropriate name. Truth be told, isn’t the air just frightening on a parent teacher meeting’s day? Particularly for parents who have a fair idea of their children’s progress report and are unwilling to come in the first place. But since the students have been threatened of an equally, or more so, embarrassing situation, in case their parents failed to appear, it feels more sound to a mother to share some of denigration herself. Imagine the character of a school faculty whom the parents don’t consider pleasing to meet and have to be forced to do so. For the most part, these parents have to keep nodding their heads infront of the swarm of compl...