35 Tweets About Parent-Teacher Conferences That All Parents Know To Be True

Imagine going in to meet your boss — for the first time — on the occasion of your performance review. They know a lot about you, but you have no idea how much of it is based in reality, because all of your observations and reviews have been conducted by a biased third party with ulterior motives.

This is basically the set up of a parent-teacher conference, where two anxious adults meet to discuss how well they’re performing the task of teaching a reckless and nonsensical little person how to exist in the world.

There is a lot of judgement, a lot of nerves, and — occasionally — some laughs.

Here, the wittiest parents on X (formerly Twitter) sum up the reality of parent-teacher conferences.