Parent-teacher Interview - Criticisms/Issues

Criticisms/Issues

Canadian Living criticizes parent-teacher interviews for their class bias. Often only the most privileged children's parents will attend the interviews and the children more likely to need extra assistance will not have their parents attend.

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