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Case Study 5

Discuss the following examples of parent comments about parent teacher meetings.

 I go on every opportunity and they say "Yes, she's fine, she's fine". We queued up for three
quarters of an hour to see her head of year and he said "Yes, she's fine. Cheerio".

 I take someone with me who does interpret for me, my fourth daughter. Yes she goes every
time and I prefer to take her with me because she can also pick up on what the teachers
may say. Obviously it might be somewhat restricting on the teachers.

 I said to her (my daughter) I'm going to have to go up and talk to someone about this
because I'm really concerned and she was frantic because going up and making a special
appointment is making a fuss!

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