50 Tallies in 44 Days

The girls got report cards today, and their mother and I had parent teacher conferences bright and early at 7:30am.

Darby's PTC was first. Nothing but stellar reviews for her. She had all As with one exception (math - an 87), but her overall average is still a 91.14 and so still an A. Best of all, she only had 7 tallies for the whole quarter. SEVEN! In the five previous years of going to her school, she has never had so few tallies in a one-quarter time frame. Wow.

However, she had 10 tardies, some of which may be my fault. But Shelby only had 1 tardy, and they are dropped off at the same time. So... I think someone is dilly-dallying about instead of getting straight to her classroom.

We most feared Shelby's PTC, and it didn't seem like it was going to start out well when the teacher closed the door behind us (she left the door open for all the previous PTCs). I was pleased to see Shelby maintained the straight Bs (an 85.33 average) reflected on her progress report of a few weeks ago, but was rather astounded to see that she had 50 tallies for the quarter (44 days). That's 1.14 tallies per day (TPD) for Shelby compared to .16 TPD for Darby. As could be expected by observing the tally count, the teacher asked for some leverage to use on Shelby. She said pretty much nothing works in trying to get Shelby to behave in a disciplined manner. Though she did say that Shelby has been improving somewhat in recent weeks. So maybe there's hope yet. In the interim we've recommended that she start taking away Shelby's snack money (with our permission). Shelby is quite particular about her money.