Funny. I had two nights of parent teacher conferences this week. About 30 of 130 showed up. Most of my students' parents get angry with me about their Kids' grades because they think the should have As. I have to explain, over and over again, that their kids are reading at a 3-4th grade level in 7th grade. I find much less of the " my child is useless " argument and much more " but he is not missing any assignments so he should have an aA" argument.