The Rampage

Kaelee Keesee Managing Editor It’s officially the week before spring break! While this is filled with expectations of vacations, sleeping in and no school, it also means the arrival of the final parent-teacher conference days of the year. For some, this is a good thing, for others it’s something to dread. For the teachers it’s just another conference.  English teacher Jennifer Betz uses her conferences with parents and students as a way to inform them what’s going on in class and their performance in the class. “I usually talk about how awesome they’re doing-always focus on the positive,” said Betz. In the fall, there is only one set of full two-day conferences while in the springtime, there is CCR conferences and full conferences. This week, conferences will be held on Wednesday from 1:30-7:30. When there are lulls, Betz usually entertains herself with people watching, paper grading and grading homework. “I have a different perspective because I have year-long classes ...

Josi Bambrook Staff Reporter Parent teacher conferences are coming up, so your grades better be going up as well! On Wednesday, March 11 at 12:30 to 7:30pm the high school conferences with be happening. This is the time when students try to push their grades up as much as they can before their teachers tell their parents how they’re doing. Conferences can be scary and stressful for students whom wish to please their parents academically, but for some it’s nothing to worry about. “My grades are as high as they have ever been,” said Pruden. With spring break coming so soon the students are starting to slack off and studying is becoming less of a priority. But some students have been on top of their grades and working hard, which makes conferences much less stressful. “I have nothing to be worried about,” said sophomore Libby Pruden. Students don’t feel like conferences are even necessary to have since the students’ parents can access our grades from the internet. “I don’t thin...