Sunday Night of Conference Week

I'm not understanding the perspective of my teaching colleagues. Why on earth do they continue to complain about parent / teacher conferences? We get the opportunity to talk with our students and their parents really once a year, and it is a wonderful opportunity to connect with these families. I don't understand the mentality that all other work in our school must stop because we have conferences! I'm seeing learning shut down all over the school, and we don't even start them until Thursday of this week.

I don't get it, and I'm not sure I ever want to get it.