Conferences:

• Where you talk for 3.5 hours straight
• Where you are existing in constant fear of the 'crabby parent'
• Where you size up each parents' body language for sudden movement
• Where you laugh and shake your head in wonder
• Where you get the chance to tell the amazing students' parents just how amazing their son or daughter really is
• Where you get to be honest with a parent about their son's disruptive and rude behavior in your class
• When you have a line of parents a mile long
• Where you get to tell the traditional C and D students' parents that their kid is getting a B or even an A in your class (for the first time ever)
• When you are exhausted but exhilerated as you walk out to your car in the empty parking lot at 8:00pm