How can I get our DC middle school to send an official transcript to my child's high school?
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Anonymous
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My child graduated from a DC middle school with good grades and a good experience. His high school is asking for an official transcript sent to them by the middle school. Repeated requests to various staff at the middle school are met with assurances or indifference, and then no action.
What is the best way to get movement on this? |
Anonymous
| Get the high school to request. Schools listen to schools more than they listen to parents. |
Anonymous
| Email the school, not call. Cc managers. |
Anonymous
| Is this a charter school? |
Anonymous
No. It's a DC public school. The high school he's going to is a private school. |
Anonymous
| If you can't reach the school, DCPS has a critical response team. You could also try and ask the instructional superindendent for your cluster. If none of that works, try the OSSE ombudsperson or David Grosso's office. |
Anonymous
Chillax, PP. This is overkill. Especially for a kid who already left DCPS and got into private school. You will get zero sympathy. Anyway. OP, did the new school accept your child without a transcript/report card? If so, they may just want an official one from DCPS to verify whatever you provided in the application is accurate. (Not that they don't trust parents, but...they don't trust parents.) The private school should have given you an official transcript request form along with the application. All you have to do is give it to the DCPS school office staff at the old school with stamped return envelope the new school. DCPS school admin will pull the report card from the DCPS computer system and send it directly to the new school. Now, maybe the school staff is swamped with paperwork and/or understaffed. Maybe your form got lost in the summer purge of office stuff. Maybe they put it at the bottom of the "to do" pile because there's no rush or deadline. Maybe people you asked are new and don't understand what you're asking for. Regardless, this is a routine admin practice between public and private schools. Besides, middle schools don't have official transcripts like high schools, so they can't withhold a report card. HTH |
Anonymous
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If you ask a bunch of times and you can't get it, you need to go up the chain. Office staff -> principal ->instructional superintendent or DCPS CRT ->OSSE ombudsperson ->council.
You do each of them politely, and you give them a reasonable amount of time. But if enrollment in a school requires this, then you need it and there's no shame in escalating the request. DCPS saves thousands of dollars on each kid who goes to private school. The least they can do is give the one piece of paper needed to get the kid enrolled there. |
Anonymous
Yes, partly on the basis of an unofficial report card, current as of the time of application, that we provided to them. Part of the confusion may be because I have used the word "transcript" in my communications with the middle school. I'm now told by a different staffer that the school does not prepare or send official "transcripts." They can send copies of the report card, and that process is now underway, it seems. Thank you all for your insights. I really appreciate them. -- OP |
Anonymous
SMH. |
Anonymous
| What private? When we switched to private for hs they did all of this. This is what you are paying for! |