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[quote=Anonymous]At my three DC's school the teachers have been trained by the administration to give parents no clue as to where their child academically is as compared to peers. This is a wealthy school so some parents tend to be competitive so I get it on some level, but it does not help me help my children. It is like they are robots reading from a fill-in-the-blank form. I just had three parent conferences for three children with very different needs but they sounded exactly the same. One has special needs and I think he is working slightly below grade level but far behind his peers but you wouldn't know that from the conference I had. It was "he's on grade level." Another, I think, is very advanced and is a beautiful writer and doing well in her compacted math class IMO but, again, you wouldn't know it from the conference. The teacher used almost the exact same words as with DS1. DS3 is likely about average. Again, just "on grade level." They will talk to you about behavioral issues like that DS1 is quite shy and DS3 talks too much. I appreciate that but what's the deal with the academic feedback?
Anyone else have this experience? It reminds me of the joke about millennials all needed to get participation prizes, that everything has to be exactly the same or it's not "fair." Do they think parents will freak out about negative feedback or that we will start bragging about positive feedback?[/quote]

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