5 min freeYour child's schoolYour child's school, rehearsed out loud
2
people run this conversation
8 min
The shortest conversation
Ten minutes with a teacher, and everything you do not ask in them is a year of your child's schooling.
B1 · workingB2 · confident
Who you will be talking to
Your child's school, with 2 of these 2.
In whichever order helps. The first 5 minutes with a free partner cost nothing, so you can talk to two of them before you choose.
5 min freeYour child's school
5 min freeYour child's schoolWhat actually happens
Five things people say before they start.
One of them is usually the real reason. What sits underneath it is what actually gets scored.
/01
“You nod, and work out at home what it meant.”
The recommendation
A move to a different group, extra support, a referral. It arrives as a statement rather than a question, and the ten seconds after it are the whole meeting.
/02
“You leave knowing the decision and not the consequence.”
Asking what it means
What changes, who decides, and can it be reversed. Three questions, and almost nobody asks the third.
/03
“One word goes past and takes the rest of the sentence with it.”
School vocabulary
The words are specific and nobody defines them for a parent, reading group, support plan, assessment, tutoría. Not knowing one is not a language problem, but it feels like one in the room.
/04
“You agree in the room and disagree in the car.”
Disagreeing politely
You are allowed to. Saying so in a second language, to somebody with institutional authority, is the hard part and it is what the rehearsal is for.
Not the situation you need?
Bring the real thing: the job description, the date on the letter, the words the school used. Everyone who runs your child's school will work from what you actually walked in with.
How a first conversation worksWhat it costs
One price a minute, whoever you talk to.
A harder conversation simply runs longer. The shortest way to rehearse your child's school is 8 min.
You pay for the seconds you talk, and the minutes come off a balance you already hold. Nothing renews, and you are never sent a bill. Plans and refunds.
Your first 5 minutes
What 5 free minutes are for.
01
This is the parent's side
Deliberately. A child speaker would mean consent machinery this product does not have, and the parent's half is arguably the higher-stakes one.
The terms, in full
- Free
- 5 minutes
- No card asked for
02
Ask the third question
Can it be reversed, and when would we look again. Almost nobody does, and it changes the meeting.
Paid for out of your free minutes
- The recommendation
- Asking what it means
- School vocabulary
- Disagreeing politely
Questions
What people ask before they start.
Nearby
What people open next.
The rest of Everyday life first, then everything else at the same difficulty.
All the situationsAt training
A2 · basicB1 · workingB2 · confidentInstructions shouted once across a court, words you only hear in a gym, and the sentence that matters most: this hurts, or this is just hard.8 peoplefrom 6 minYour child's coachA2 · basicB1 · workingB2 · confidentFive minutes after practice, the kids already in the car, and a question about minutes, money or a weekend away that has to be asked properly.6 peoplefrom 8 minTravelling
A2 · basicB1 · workingB2 · confidentThe desk, the hotel, the table: short, fast, full of numbers you hear once.5 peoplefrom 5 min
A2 · basicB1 · workingB2 · confidentInstructions shouted once across a court, words you only hear in a gym, and the sentence that matters most: this hurts, or this is just hard.8 peoplefrom 6 minYour child's coachA2 · basicB1 · workingB2 · confidentFive minutes after practice, the kids already in the car, and a question about minutes, money or a weekend away that has to be asked properly.6 peoplefrom 8 minTravellingA2 · basicB1 · workingB2 · confidentThe desk, the hotel, the table: short, fast, full of numbers you hear once.5 peoplefrom 5 min