Parent teacher conference is the day that schools consent teachers and parents to complain together about the children. Students are thus compensated by being allowed to staying at home. My mother, on the other hand, never got this second part and, so, I am dragged along with her, yet she still does not hold back in the criticism portion of this event.
Our first meeting was with the Literature teacher, then the Math teacher, then Science, History… and they all had the same thing to say about me: top student but fails to participate in class. This being a criticism, it was the only thing my mother fixated upon, completely ignoring the first half. She is the type of person who, upon winning the lottery, will complain for not earning more. So, let us just say that she was not too h
