Student Led Conferences

What is annoying, boring, and a huge waste of time? If your answer was the title of this article, you were right. These student led conferences are required for graduation, but for what reason? If walking in a classroom with my parent and telling them about my “goals” and “outstanding work” will get me to graduate I will do it but what is it doing for my future?

 

And the worst part is I have to take 15 minutes out of my day to do this process. I’m sure all the teachers would like a day off and not have to listen to kids tell their parents how much they “love” school. And students wouldn’t mind sleeping in and not have to worry about wasting the gas to go to school for a few minutes.

Also student led conferences are just ONE MORE THING that you have to do to graduate. On top of the WASL, passing all of the required classes, senior project, and grammar test, you have to go to these student led conferences. They wonder why our graduation numbers are so low.

My vote is to get rid of these SLCs and do something that is going to help me be prepared for my future.