Parent Teacher Meetings and Conferences grow less and less as Parents need to Work More.

Over the recent years, Parent-teacher conferences have dwindled in the attendance of parents. A school full of students may be half-full during the two-day Parent-teacher meeting. These conferences are held for two days only twice a year. It's the time where parents can finally uncover what their child has been doing and seeing for the 4-5 months before the conference. This is also the moment where you check in on the academic progress your child may or may not be making, but many parents are simply not attending.

It's not because they don't care - but they can't. Between those two days, there's only a specific time frame and method for parents to communicate and meet their student's teachers and classrooms during the week and during working hours. In the two days, teachers only have a short time frame where they are allowed to meet parents and discuss their children. If parents, unfortunately, could not be seen then, it's time to reschedule. Even for the parents capable of attending these conferences, there might be 20-30 other parents trying to do the same thing. There's no time limit on how long a teacher should or can converse with each parent. Many parents are just finding out about what their children participate in school for the first time. This becomes an inconvenience to many parents on a strict time schedule or uses their break from work to make time for the meeting. With parents working more hours or multiple jobs, missing work to attend a 45 minutes to 1 hour meeting doesn't seem worth the wages lost to provide for their family.

That's where a mobile app like Parent-Teacher-Mobile comes in handy. It not only saves time and money for both parents and teachers. But it allows for a consistent meeting and check-in with their children's teachers at their own pace. Parents could be at work, in a forum, or running errands and still have the chance to check in with teachers or ask a question if they need to. While building the parent-teacher relationship and giving parents the confidence to know where their child is academically.