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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our private middle school does (Powerschool Haiku) and it's a godsend. For our 8th grader, I always have a view into his homework load that night. I also know how his grades are tracking. For the just-completed first semester, this knowledge was REALLY helpful in ensuring he was going to put his best foot forward for the high school application transcripts. Now that we're in the 2nd semester, we're much more relaxed about his grades. But Powerschool has been a fantastic tool for us.[/quote]

Wow that sounds amazing. Would you share the school’s name or location?[/quote]

Alas, not in the D.C. area. We're in San Francisco. But I wanted to counter some of the negative points about the online assignment and grade systems. [/quote]

We have had PowerSchool at my guys' parochial school and Schoology/NetClassroom at my guy's private HS. As others have said, we keep in mind that teachers have lives and commitments and cannot always plug in grades right away - but a look once a week or once a month helped us notice when homework was getting misdirected or lost or skipped. All three of those things happened within the last 2-3 years, and yet both boys are now top of their class, and this would not have happened without both parents and kids playing a role. These are great tools.

PowerSchool used to have a function that would send me daily emails, very useful when this problem was at its peak, and i was surprised and disappointed when the grammar school disabled that function. We all talk about "executive function" but this is one of the few tools for really working with the issue, versus the lamentable "sink or swim" approach.[/quote]

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