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[quote=Anonymous]I think some of what you describe is the transition from pre-K to K, some is teacher specific.  I've had multiple kids in APS and this year is the worst as far as communications coming from so many directions.  Don't get me wrong I welcome communication, but it is in so many different places, as OP mentioned.  I'd think ONE district could use ONE platform, like maybe send an email with a link to ParentVue and all the docs in there?  Or teachers use one platform, the rest of APS uses another platform.  If they're going to use so many platforms, they should have webpage somewhere listing all of the different communication methods and what they are used for.

As for your teacher not knowing your kid very well in the fall, I don't think that is too surprising, especially if your kid is on the quieter side.  Teachers have been getting to know 23 or so kids.  I've had teachers who completely knew my child (when the child was very bubbly and talkative), a teacher who completely mislabeled my child an introvert (when they were back to school for the first time after COVID and in reality overwhelmed with the noise and large number of kids they hadn't been used to being around), a teacher the following year asked if I would like them to encourage my child to work more in groups with peers (yes!  thank you!!!!), a teacher who just let my child read several books in a corner every day when they were done with their school work, a teacher who insisted everything was fine when my kid had anxiety but wasn't causing any problem, a teacher who would share nothing when I asked about the social struggles my child was having (and reporting to me), a teacher who named other children when talking about how my child was interacting with other kids, a teacher who told me my child had one friend in class while a specials teacher that same year listed several kids my child played with.  Some of it is the teacher.  Some of it is the nature of school (again, around 23 kids with one adult).  The adult has to focus on kids acting out and causing problems, not the quiet kid who isn't bothering their neighbor.

Similarly, I've found the weekly emails from teachers of varying usefulness.  We haven't always had teachers who sent them.  One year the teacher was very inconsistent in sending the grade level newsletter (other parents in the grader received it regularly, our class's teacher just didn't always send it).  When i see "deepening our understanding of X" for four weeks in a a row I'm not really learning anything from the newsletter.  I do appreciate when they also include what is coming up the next week. [/quote]

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