10 days until the quarter ends. Why are you ignoring teachers' attempts to contact you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:10 hmmm, not sure much is going to change in 10 days. Was there some sudden change to his/her grade. Maybe a heads up when I can actually have time to intervene would have been nice.

Is this something that is actually fixed at home? Do you want me to tutor him/her? Can you deal with this at school?

Yesterday, we had a grade level team meeting. Both Science and SS had projects worth 30 points due within the last week. English had a paper worth 25 points. Any of those can move a student a letter grade if he or she "forgot" to turn them in and they are currently reflected as a Z in Gradebook/Edline. Might be worth responding to the teacher's efforts to contact you (the parent) before the deadline date when that Z becomes a 0.

Science, SS and English all had important stuff due in a 5 day period, maybe teachers should talk to each other.

If my child "forgot" to turn it in, call him/her up to your desk and ask for it. Do you want me to come in to the school, go through my child's bag and hand you a project?

I'd want YOU - the parent - to be responsible for YOUR kid on YOUR end. I teach. I'm also the parent of two children in the same system. My older child has a calendar in her room where so adds in tests, projects, long-term HW assignments, etc. If she forgets something, it's on her. life of hard knocks

I don't expect the teachers to go after her every single day to ensure she's doing her homework. If there's a pattern, that will be noted and parents will be contacted. But if you don't talk to your own children, you don't see patterns on your end.

We have 130+ kids to teach. You have your own.

Be responsible and stop placing blame elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:10 hmmm, not sure much is going to change in 10 days. Was there some sudden change to his/her grade. Maybe a heads up when I can actually have time to intervene would have been nice.

Is this something that is actually fixed at home? Do you want me to tutor him/her? Can you deal with this at school?

Yesterday, we had a grade level team meeting. Both Science and SS had projects worth 30 points due within the last week. English had a paper worth 25 points. Any of those can move a student a letter grade if he or she "forgot" to turn them in and they are currently reflected as a Z in Gradebook/Edline. Might be worth responding to the teacher's efforts to contact you (the parent) before the deadline date when that Z becomes a 0.

Science, SS and English all had important stuff due in a 5 day period, maybe teachers should talk to each other.

If my child "forgot" to turn it in, call him/her up to your desk and ask for it. Do you want me to come in to the school, go through my child's bag and hand you a project?

I'd want YOU - the parent - to be responsible for YOUR kid on YOUR end. I teach. I'm also the parent of two children in the same system. My older child has a calendar in her room where so adds in tests, projects, long-term HW assignments, etc. If she forgets something, it's on her. life of hard knocks

I don't expect the teachers to go after her every single day to ensure she's doing her homework. If there's a pattern, that will be noted and parents will be contacted. But if you don't talk to your own children, you don't see patterns on your end.

We have 130+ kids to teach. You have your own.

Be responsible and stop placing blame elsewhere.

I get the "it's on her" statement. I am not getting the "it's on me" statement ... but I never owned a helicopter, can't afford one.

Are you going to have her college professors email you when an assignment is late.

I will make sure my child can cook, clean, change a tire, volunteer, cut the lawn, do laundry, treats people with respect, etc.

There is a paper due, okay, unless there is an IEP situation I don't know why this is something you need to email me about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BTW- if you email us via Edline about 50% of the time we are unable to reply to you. It simply bounces back as undeliverable. I don't know why it works sometimes and not other times. Likewise if your child emails outside of the mcpsmd.net domain I will be unable to reply via my home email because of restrictions placed on the accounts by MCPS. If I email you directly I use the email in myMCPS to contact you. I do not place calls unless it is a disciplinary matter requiring either your assistance or assistance outside of the classroom (i.e. an administrator, counselor or resource teacher).

You sound ridiculously rigid, teacher. And I'm guessing you have phone phobia...sad. How old are you???

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:LOL, sweet teacher. It's funny. I asked my child's English teacher to contact me about his 2 learning disabilities back on Back to School night. She hasn't yet.

Have you followed up since then? That teacher probably had a dozen parents ask her the same thing, god forbid she might forget to write down one or two.

But pp's kids have special needs, so she should have made that a priority

[Anonymous]

So what did the actual student say? Did you bother to (gasp) speak to the student?

Oh, that's right...you have 130 students (a day...)...no time to speak to a student, right?

PS - Maybe try using a zero instead of a Z? How the hell are we supposed to know what a Z means? After all, P means Puppy dogs and rainbows in MCPSLand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LOL, sweet teacher. It's funny. I asked my child's English teacher to contact me about his 2 learning disabilities back on Back to School night. She hasn't yet.

Have you followed up since then? That teacher probably had a dozen parents ask her the same thing, god forbid she might forget to write down one or two.

But pp's kids have special needs, so she should have made that a priority

Yes, PP should make her child's special needs a priority, and follow up with the teacher promptly when she doesn't hear her.

[Anonymous]

I am blown away by the responses in this thread, the number of people who seem to think they should have zero (or near zero) responsibility for their kids' education. I knew there were some people out there who felt that way, but I really thought they were few and far between. We can debate all day long about how involved a parent should be in their kids' education, but if a teacher is trying to contact you about a problem at school, and you don't make the effort to follow up and at least find out what's going on and whether there's something you should do about it, that's just terrible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So what did the actual student say? Did you bother to (gasp) speak to the student?

Oh, that's right...you have 130 students (a day...)...no time to speak to a student, right?

PS - Maybe try using a zero instead of a Z? How the hell are we supposed to know what a Z means? After all, P means Puppy dogs and rainbows in MCPSLand.

I believe OP already followed up to say that she'd spoken to the child repeatedly but the work still hadn't shown up, and that's why she was reaching out to the parents.

[Anonymous]

This is why big assignments should be mostly done in the classroom with smaller parts done at home and "chunked".

The really good assignments were done by the kids moms.
The average assignments were actually done by the kids.

How are you going to compare my kids assignment... that I require him to do 100% himself... with an assignment that was managed, coordinated and finished by a mom with a PhD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is why big assignments should be mostly done in the classroom with smaller parts done at home and "chunked".

The really good assignments were done by the kids moms.
The average assignments were actually done by the kids.

How are you going to compare my kids assignment... that I require him to do 100% himself... with an assignment that was managed, coordinated and finished by a mom with a PhD.

Yeah, that has nothing to do with what we're talking about here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:10 days until the quarter ends. Why are you ignoring teachers' attempts to contact you? What can we teachers do to encourage/facilitate a response?

Sorry teacher. Same reason only a handful of parents show up on the one Open House a year. Most parents use school as daycare these days only. No interest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So what did the actual student say? Did you bother to (gasp) speak to the student?

Oh, that's right...you have 130 students (a day...)...no time to speak to a student, right?

PS - Maybe try using a zero instead of a Z? How the hell are we supposed to know what a Z means? After all, P means Puppy dogs and rainbows in MCPSLand.

Z is an official MCPS grade. Not some code a random teacher made up. Any parent who doesn't find out what a Z means after seeing it on their kid's Edline has already dropped the ball.

[Anonymous]

Show me a link on edline that explains what a Z is?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Show me a link on edline that explains what a Z is?

It's explained at back to school night every year.

Signed,
A MCPS Parent

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Show me a link on edline that explains what a Z is?

It's explained at back to school night every year.

Signed,
A MCPS Parent

I attended back to school night, and I didn't catch the part about Z.

Signed,
Mcps parent who thinks mcps is run by a bunch of knuckleheads