Reply to Kids' teachers won't leave me alone!

Forum Index » Schools and Education General Discussion

Reply to "Kids' teachers won't leave me alone!"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi, OP, I'm a teacher and I'm really sorry that you are having to deal with all these emails.

I really think we teachers need to not bother parents as much as possible now.  In the first few weeks maybe parents were needed because the technology was all so new, but at this point we should just stick to activities that our kids can accomplish independently -- even if that means less variety or less interesting work for the kids.

Asking parents to upload student work is no good.  Kids need some way of turning in their work without requiring parent help.

You have a valid reason to contact the principal and ask that this be made a priority.[/quote]

NP, thank you! My 4th-grader has a good 2-3 hours a day of independent work to do in addition to class time. I know he cannot access, submit and keep track of each assignment because I can’t. Constantly changing online platforms, broken links, apps that are only accessible during class time but that are needed to complete after-class assignments, work that must be individually photographed and uploaded to be turned in, new apps that require passwords not given to either of us to open, and half his assignments marked as missing, not completed when they are turned in and graded. I am spending hours daily trying to shepherd him through it all, and as far as I can tell the other parents just accept this without question and spend the same amount of time as I do sitting with their kids pushing them through work that could easily be made simple to access. And I cannot send my child to in-person school even if I had that option. It is infuriating. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics