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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]i) you have login/password to their U portal?
ii) you ask them to pull them up on the portal when they're home for a break?
iii) print out / screenshot email?
iv) you just take their word for it?
v) you don't care, don't ask, don't tell?

My oldest just went to college and not sure what is normal. Also, if you're involved with monitoring their grades, do you pay attention to assignments (e.g. practice sets) and midterms too...or just final grades that show up on the transcript?[/quote]
By college they are supposed to be able to manage this themselves, so IMO less is more. However, it really depends on the kid. My oldest had a pretty bad case of senioritis, so he knows he didn't earn complete independence of communication yet. We have an agreement that we will check grades together 1 month in, after mid-terms, and just before finals 1st term freshman year. I have access, but I don't plan to look until he discusses it with me. Depending on how things are going, that will scale back to just relying on periodic self-reporting. He has to meet minimum targets in order to keep getting funding, but really I don't care about details. 2nd kid will be different. I already don't need to check on anything in HS, so I expect he'll be off to college and if I'm lucky I'll find out his GPA at graduation.[/quote]

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