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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a teacher and I post my syllabus every year. I've had to change it twice in the last 3 months due to my district grading regulations changing. My friends who teach in other districts around the country have told me that their districts have reweighted everything too. I don't post all due dates in the syllabus. I teach in high school, not college. We sometimes have to adjust test dates and assignments. If students struggle with something, I'll push back the test. If I just published everything in September and didn't respond to my student's needs, parents would complain about that. We can't win. [/quote]

The lack of publishing due dates means that kids no longer have a central location to find them[/quote]

I update the syllabus throughout the year. I give at least 10 days (minimum) notice prior to the test. It's all in the syllabus which is pinned to the top of all of my classes' notices. When I make changes to it, it automatically sends an email to each student. Plus I verbally tell students in class. [/quote]

I would assume your kids are doing fine. DD has assignment dates buried in e-mails (with no heads up in the subject line) [/quote]

Not all of them. It doesn't matter how organized the teacher is. There are always students who don't know what's going on. Their parents don't either and are usually the ones who freak out when their kids get low grades. Thankfully our admin team is great. I have learned to take screenshots of everything I do to show when I update the syllabus, the sent emails to students, etc. I've had parents rant and rave at me in meetings and it turns out that their child hasn't read his/her emails in months so they don't know what's going on. I always give 5-8 minutes of homeroom time to "check you email now." But I cannot make them do it. If they choose to ignore me instead, that's on them. I teach 10th-11th grades.[/quote]

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