Teachers-quick perspective from you

[Anonymous]

Teachers, I quickly copied and pasted and sent a friendly e-mail to both of my DD's teachers. I was complimentary and part of the e-mail thanked them for sending work home because we can clearly see what DDs are learning and improving. DDs are clearly learning a lot in both of their classes. But in hindsight one of the teachers actually sends work home sparingly while the other sends 1-2 graded, stamped, stickered work daily. The next day, the teacher who doesn't send a lot of work home sent over 25 worksheets stamped that my DD has completed so far. I loved seeing her progress and work but it was ALOT! I just wanted to know if you think the teacher felt insulted and sent all of that paperwork or do you think she felt she had to "please" the parent and quickly gathered a bunch of work to send home? I'm not a teacher but just wanted to see it from a teacher perspective. Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Probably a coincidence. You are definitely overthinking this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Probably a coincidence. You are definitely overthinking this.

+1

[Anonymous]

Yeah that was a coincidence

[Anonymous]

Does it matter?

[Anonymous]

Teachers do not have time for that. Maybe the papers were accumulated, but already graded/checked but she did not send them home due to time management. Your email may have prompted her to expedite sending your child’s papers home. Or she may have been saving them as samples of her work that she was going to use at the parent teacher conference (not that she’d take everything out at once, but that she was going to pull a few samples from that pile). I really don’t think you need to give this a second thought though. Just be glad she was responsive and that you got to see her work!

[Anonymous]

As support staff I have worked with teachers who send home 5-10 papers each week and others who never send home any, in fact they throw big stacks of papers in the trash. More of the former than the latter, but still, they exist.

I'd say your email caused the one teacher to grab whatever was piling up and send it home. She/he might have sent it home eventually anyway or they might have thrown it in the trash.

Think about this. If they haven't sent any home for awhile, either because they couldn't be bothered or they haven't corrected or graded them (and never will) it would be unlikely that they will send home a big stack because that makes them look bad. Those are the teachers who generally throw it all in the trash.

[Anonymous]

Conferences were last week. The teacher was purging. All of my daughter's stuff came home this week in a big pile. When I taught elementary, I did the same thing.

[Anonymous]

My kids only bring home items on Friday, in the weekly folder from the teacher.

[Anonymous]

I see the teacher sent worksheets. My students don't have many worksheets to do, so in that case they just don't have that type of work to take home. On occasion I will send home their math, reading and writing notebooks to share.