Middle schooler failing - no word from school

[Anonymous]

I have a APS middle schooler failing multiple classes. The school has not reached out once to discuss. I guess I’m surprised but maybe should not be? I would have thought an individual teacher would email the parents to discuss or a grade level principal or counselor would do so. Nothing.

[Anonymous]

Well I can see it both ways but considering you can access your children’s grades 24/7, I think the onus is on the parents to reach out for support when they see multiple failing grades in ParentVUE.

[Anonymous]

Which school is this?

[Anonymous]

Are you sure they haven't tried to contact you? Is your contact information up to date in Parent Vue? I agree with a PP that because you have access to Parent Vue, that you should be watching your kid's grades through the portal.

Also, what happened at P-T conferences? What did the teachers say to you then?

You should send an email to each teacher for whom your kid is earning less than an 80%.

And maybe you can schedule a parent conference with the team? Ask your kid's counselor to set it up.

[Anonymous]

As in failed the first quarter or has failing grades at the moment as part of the second quarter? If the latter, it can look like kids are failing and they just haven’t turned in assignments so the school isn’t going to necessarily call you over that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you sure they haven't tried to contact you? Is your contact information up to date in Parent Vue? I agree with a PP that because you have access to Parent Vue, that you should be watching your kid's grades through the portal.

Also, what happened at P-T conferences? What did the teachers say to you then?

You should send an email to each teacher for whom your kid is earning less than an 80%.

And maybe you can schedule a parent conference with the team? Ask your kid's counselor to set it up.

The first thing you should do is ask your child what’s going on and get them to talk to the teacher if it’s necessary. What does your kid say is going on?

[Anonymous]

Aps are awful they only care about the low SES students

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well I can see it both ways but considering you can access your children’s grades 24/7, I think the onus is on the parents to reach out for support when they see multiple failing grades in ParentVUE.

Yes I follow Parentvue every day and I review with my child daily or weekly, depending on the situation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you sure they haven't tried to contact you? Is your contact information up to date in Parent Vue? I agree with a PP that because you have access to Parent Vue, that you should be watching your kid's grades through the portal.

Also, what happened at P-T conferences? What did the teachers say to you then?

You should send an email to each teacher for whom your kid is earning less than an 80%.

And maybe you can schedule a parent conference with the team? Ask your kid's counselor to set it up.

Conferences are five minutes per teacher in early October - useless. None of them were concerned at the time even though we expressed concern.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Which school is this?

Williamsburg

[Anonymous]

You reach out and contact them. Be your child’s number one advocate and contact them to get help for your child and to find out why they are failing.

[Anonymous]

And the school is probably thinking “Middle schooler failing, no word from parents.” Please reach out to teachers if you haven’t yet, OP!

[Anonymous]

Different, FCPS. My MS kid was in an Honors class where half the students were failing. Imo the school and the teacher was enacting this - was making the point to parents - that most of these kids should not be taking the honors level class. Once I pointed out to the teacher that we never had any invention of DC taking the honors path in this subject going forward in HS, the teacher relaxed. This was an in-person meeting. We said we were very agreeable to moving DC down a level, mid-year in that subject. Which is what we did. DC had the same teacher and she was wonderful to DC and DC did well after that. I do not think the grade-spread reflected a great difference in mastery of the material. I think it reflected that the school got what they wanted. Imo, maybe the school couldn't say "no" to students choosing Honors, when classes were chosen, but it was standard practice that the school would manage the grade book later to push a lot of students out.

[Anonymous]

So why aren't you calling the counselor? Did you see their interim grade?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Which school is this?

Williamsburg

You didn't answer the question of whether his final first quarter grades were failing or whether you are looking at his grades real time and it looks like he's failing.