I write from experience. Twelve years as an elementary school teacher. Ten years (and counting) as a chronic patient. (I live with an autoimmune disease, undifferentiated connective tissue disease.) Only now, however, have I come to realize the similarities that exist between many parent/teacher conferences and many doctors’ appointments.
Sometimes, you enter into both situations with a general idea of the status of things. You’ve reviewed your child’s progress reports, and you receive regular communication from the classroom teacher.
The conference merely formalizes what you already know. Likewise, you go in for your yearly physical, feeling fine (thank goodness) and knowing your doctor will ask you the usual questions about your overall
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