Parent Teacher Conferences

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At our school, and many other schools, we have each parent come in with their student and find out from the teachers what they are learning in class. Our job as teachers today is to show what we do in class (our curriculum from the beginning of school until now) and let them know briefly how their child is doing in our class. Each teacher has seven minutes with each parent in their class, with three minutes between conferences, so each parent/student group will have 70 minutes at school meeting with teachers. Elementary students meet together with parents and show their parents what they are doing in their portfolio and then the teacher tells them how they are doing and what the parents can do to help. The elementary conferences are 45 minutes. I don't teach a core subject, so I have not had many conferences, but I am also a translator because I can speak Japanese for some of the parents who are not confident in their English ability (we are an international school teaching in English.) Do your kids have parent teacher conferences? Do you enjoy going and meeting teachers? Does it help you know how your child is doing and what they can do better?