Parent-Teacher Conferences: The Shit They Never Covered in Teacher Training

Conference night was supposed to be simple: reading levels, math goals, polite smiles, and a tidy schedule. Instead, one exhausted first-grade teacher faces late arrivals, missing parents, impossible demands, spectacular oversharing, family drama, and children turning her classroom into a disaster zone while the adults are busy talking.As each new family takes a seat, the conversations become more surprising-and the teacher's private thoughts become harder to keep private. By the time the final conference ends, the room, the schedule, and her patience have all been pushed to their limits.Parent-Teacher Conferences is an illustrated, adults-only workplace satire for teachers, retired educators, school staff, and anyone who has ever wondered what really happens during conference night. Inspired by decades in the classroom, it finds sharp, relatable comedy in the meetings, misunderstandings, and mayhem that teacher training never prepared anyone to handle.