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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Classroom teacher here. I have had classes of kids unaccustomed to reading at all and the reading logs was one of the few ways I could get a sense of which kids were reading and which were not. The county has an expectation of 20 minutes per day. Thirty is better. How else would you suggest getting accountability? The teacher doesn't really have time to do a lot of show and tell. If a parent had come to me and said, my kid loves to read, but the reading log is detrimental to them, I would have removed that expectation from that child. But I had a whole classrooms of below grade level readers that never read. I understand it doesn't work in your circumstances, but teachers sometimes adopt solutions that may work for the majority of the class. I did a quick search of PGCPS and several reading log pages came up, including one from the reading office that had a bunch of reading log templates for teachers. My guess is the expectation is county level and the reading office sends out reading logs for teachers to use. Some teachers would feel these are mandatory.

It sounds like your classroom teacher isn't great though.[/quote]

Thanks for the helpful information!  I can see where the logs could be really helpful in the cases you just described.  I wish the teacher was as rational and open to alternatives as you are.  When I went in to talk to her I tried to come up with some other ideas but she just stared at me.  It's a shame because this particular class is full of 12 TAG kids and the rest are the top achieving kids in the grade.

I have a lot of respect for the vast majority of teachers in PGCPS.  The teachers our kids have had over the past 5 years have been so effective and professional especially considering the challenges that comes with teaching in a high poverty and high ELL school.

This lady is just a really bad apple but has tenure in the county so removing her from the classroom isn't as easy as it should be.  That is why I have been documenting everything.
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