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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And then there's the online grade reporting system in middle and high school that emails you daily with grades from tests and assignements. Edline is a relentless barrage of bad news for us. And then I think if it's hard for me to deal, how hard it must be for DD who tries fairly hard but still fails a lot of tests.[/quote]

Edline is a constant reminder to me that the teachers at my kid's middle school could give a rat's ass if my kid learns anything at school. They seem to get a sadistic glee out of  sending a big fat F into your mail box on Friday and Saturday afternoon when you have no way of contacting them for a clarification of how your kid can improve his grade. If a smart child is failing, they don't seem to get that it the teacher's failure as well. They ignore my kid or assume he is doing nothing--yet when I go into class and actually force them to examine what he has done, 9 times out of 10 he has done the work but gotten caught up in some minor protocol problem--failed to follow through with some control freak type rule. I hate having to force teachers to be accountable for what they are (or in most cases are not) teaching my son.[/quote]

OMG.  Can I just say that I feel this way with my oldest even though she is a good student w/o any disabilities?  I hate Edline.  Teachers have posted incorrect grades or don't post grades in forever or lose papers and then give my child a zero or they downgrade for not doing something that wasn't on the rubric.  Thankfully, the rest of her grades are good, so she can survive an E here or there, but in the meanwhile, she is freaking out until she can figure out what happened and make up for it.  In general, at her middle school magnet, we have found most of the teachers to be passive-aggressive control freaks who seem to confuse being a tough teacher with being a nit-picking drill sargent.  Teachers are constantly checking for ridiculous things.  Why are there 7 different paper setup formats (margins, type font, type size, etc.)?  Is that really necessary?  Why give grading rubrics out if they are not followed?  Why not post homework assignments on Edline regularly?  Why give my child crap about making up an assignment when I've sent a note in that she was ill?  Why have random binder checks worth points to see if all children are carrying all handouts and assignments from the entire year?  WTF?  It's June -- does my child really need to have the Sept. 14th English quiz in her binder? If you gave a due date for a permission slip, why engage in public humiliation of each student every day until it's turned in?  I could go on and on.  In general, I find teachers who substitute form or process-based strictness are generally trying to make up for a lack of substance.  Yes, kids need to follow the rules, but the rules and consequences also need to be necessary and social/emotionally appropriate.

I fear middle school for my youngest child who is ADD-inattentive and has other issues.  If even a straight-A, rules following genius can be dragged down emotionally by the petty dictatorship of middle school, I can't imagine how our youngest will be make it through with his self-esteem intact let alone good grades.

FWIW, I try to keep in mind both of my brothers, who both probably had different kinds of disabilities, who both did crappy in school, and both of whom became independent successful contributing members of society ....[/quote]

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