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[quote=Anonymous]Comments take forever for teachers to write. If a teacher spends just ten minutes per comment and has a load of only 60 students, that’s still ten hours of work, not including the hours required for end-of-term grading and admin time to review comments. Teachers usually have to cut back on lesson planning and grading in the two weeks before comments are due in order to fit all of their work in. Generally, you will get parent-teacher conferences or comments but not both in the same term. Schools have parent-teacher conferences in the fall as a way to facilitate face-to-face meetings and relationship building between families and the school.

While it may not feel like teachers are communicating a lot with parents, I can assure you that a good portion of the week is taken up by parent communication—praising exceptional work, looking out for kids in psychological crisis, referring struggling students to resources, investigating disciplinary incidents, and following up with consequences. If you’re not on the receiving end of such news, your child is probably meeting academic and social expectations most of the time.

Schools usually send midterms if your child’s grade drops below a B-. For parents who want to watch grades closely, there is usually an online portal available for that purpose. Most questions can be answered by reading the syllabus, checking the class website, and talking to your child. [/quote]

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