F2F

It's that time!  We are ready for that hallmark of the school year: Parent-Teacher interviews.  This regularly scheduled meeting has a number of goals and objectives, but the most central of all is to 'ensure that our students are on the right path to learning'.  

When I bring up the topic of parent-teacher interviews, both parents are teachers alike can respond in fear and trepidation.  In mainstream media, we hear stories of confrontation, defensiveness, shame, etc etc etc stemming from the PTI.  This popular rendition, thankfully, is not what we experience on a regular basis at NACE.  In a community where the parents are so invested in their children's education and the school, these meetings quickly convey the shared support and investment we have in our children's well-begin and education.  

So now that the year has begun and the emails, newsletters, class reports, and other modes of communication have flown back and forth, it is time for some dedicated discussion on how the year has begun.  The Face-to-Face, or F2F as our texting teens refer to it.  Even the avid online communicator knows that eventually, we need to bridge the gap that other connections miss and sit down together face-to-face.

While I'm on popular media, sayings, and culture, perhaps an often used cliche applies to the feeling I get before and after a round of parent teacher interviews: "We're all in this together!"  Thank God for a community focussed on raising our children together in the light of God's word and faithfulness!