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Originally Posted by chid
Report Cards aren't, and should NOT be the only form of "communication" between student/parent/teacher. I email back and forth daily, weekly, bi-weekly, and monthly depending on the student, so the communication is constant.
Report Cards are a summative report, but if as a parent you haven't spoken to your child's teacher before the first report card in January, there is a problem.
Schools try to have PT Conferences between them, so for example, my school has Meet the Teacher / Welcome Back BBQ in Sept. We then have conferences late November / December. Reports go out end of Jan. We are meeting again in March for conferences, and then June report. Between those times there should be a dialogue happening. If not, someone is not doing their job (parent or teacher)
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I know that you teach, so maybe you can tell me, was there a review period for teachers around the end of January as well? Maybe for newer teachers? Its interesting, but we had heard basically nothing for our daughter and then all of a sudden we get emails and notes and an actual flow of information. I just wonder if something was said somewhere and now we have some action?
I go to all of the events at the school (basically) and we've set up our own meetings with the teachers and things like that. We've always said that if there are any issues at all here is our email, please let us know. We've volunteered in the classes, sent notes and heard almost nothing until it was too late (at least IMO). Then all of a sudden we started hearing what was happening (both good and bad). Made me wonder.