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

[Anonymous]

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?

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Amen! What can we do to get you interested in hearing about your child's education?

[Anonymous]

I would love if my kids' Teachers contacted me!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would love if my kids' Teachers contacted me!

+1 I keep calling, email and no response.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would love if my kids' Teachers contacted me!

+1 I keep calling, email and no response.

County policy is response next school day, even if it is only to say "I need more time to gather info before giving you an answer." If you have not received any response (even phone tag) to multiple attempts, please notify the grade level administrator in writing.
--OP

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Are you sure the email or phone number is correct? Several teachers have screwed up my email address, and apparently they aren't tech savvy enough to understand when messages aren't delivered.

[Anonymous]

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.

This is one of the reasons why BTSN is not the appropriate time to try to have an individual conversation about your child. It is meant to be a chance for parents to see the classroom, meet the teacher, and hear an overview of the year for ES or course for secondary school.

There is no way that I would be able to work a normal duty day, prepare a presentation for parents, drive back to school, go through the presentation five times, answer parents' general and specific questions, get home at 10 pm, return to work at 7:30 the next day, teach another full day, and somehow remember that a specific parent asked me verbally to contact them about their child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you sure the email or phone number is correct? Several teachers have screwed up my email address, and apparently they aren't tech savvy enough to understand when messages aren't delivered.

Unless they received an automated response that the email wasn't delivered, how would they know that it wasn't vs. you simply ignoring their emails?

[Anonymous]

Teachers actually contact parents when there is an issue, instead of ignoring it????

Bless you, OP. My child is in 5th grade, has severe ADHD which is impacting his schooling, and not one teacher has ever contacted me (since K). They wait until the parent conference and the grade report comes in with all Ns or all Is.
And then claim they cannot change any of the grades.

[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.

This is one of the reasons why BTSN is not the appropriate time to try to have an individual conversation about your child. It is meant to be a chance for parents to see the classroom, meet the teacher, and hear an overview of the year for ES or course for secondary school.

There is no way that I would be able to work a normal duty day, prepare a presentation for parents, drive back to school, go through the presentation five times, answer parents' general and specific questions, get home at 10 pm, return to work at 7:30 the next day, teach another full day, and somehow remember that a specific parent asked me verbally to contact them about their child.

+1. Back to School Night as well as Meet the Teacher (for elementary level) aren't supposed to be times when parents receive answers to specific issues related to the kids. We present the curriculum, not field questions about each of 28 children. Saying that, your teacher should have told you to email or write her about your specifics and she should have started the conversation going forward from there.

[Anonymous]

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?

[Anonymous]

Maybe the child has homework missing, and there's a chance to turn it in before it's too late; maybe there's one additional test coming up that could make a break a grade and the teacher wants to let the parent know ... It could be many things that would affect he quarter grade.

But, OP, if you called or emailed me, and I received the messages, I would definitely call you back.

[Anonymous]

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.