[Mr.Coffee]

Two more things that annoy me with not necessarily just teachers but education generally is why progress reports are so rare now. I get 2 / year for our school and the first one I got was like March. Wtf. Way too much time had passed to have a sense from their teacher as to how my kids are doing.

And before all the teacher white knights come swarming, yes, I know, it is also mainly my responsibility- got it thanks. But it's just one more example of responsibility and obligations shifting to parents and then teachers sitting back and blaming parents for ####ing everything. And it's just not how it used to be. We used to get more frequent reporting and I'm just unsure why that needed to stop. I mean, I do tend to follow my kids education pretty closely and had a pretty good sense anyway, and keep on them about tests / homework, but it still is not super comforting having such little feedback from their teachers. And again- white knights, yes, I know, nothing stopping me from reaching out to the teacher etc. But- why? Why do you shift this burden to me? So you don't have to report as frequently? And quite frankly, with all the PD days, I feel like they can get another reporting round in. Like how about less PD and more designated days off (same number of days) that a teacher can spend on report cards.

Secondly, going online to various websites and having everything digital is super ####ing brutal. Gone are the days a kid can just you know, have a textbook. Now you have three different accounts and three different instructional online situations to follow and track everything and then chase down teachers who don't post homework online properly or there is no actual good instructional stuff on these internal portal thingies in the event your kid is struggling with a concept. Like, it's such a massive time suck and pain in the ass to ####ing fumble around all these portals and ####. Why we couldn't just keep textbooks that worked for like a century is beyond me. This whole online portal thing is 100% an example of technology not improving anything, especially for parents. Usually these things involve super low guidance from the teacher, your kids if they're young don't know how to operate / login / figure out their user / pass and navigate the usually not-intuitive portal spaces and it's honestly such a clusterfata. So ridiculous.

there ya go #3, that was a bit more ranty / angry haha.