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[quote=Anonymous]OP Here. To address some of the questions above - Yes, we do get a sheet each month of what they are learning in the classroom. It comes home as a print out and has general topics. For example, it's November, so they are learning about Veteran's Day. It's good to know but also extremely general. Teacher is newer.

The principal uses parent square to send out mass Friday notices with Principal email. The teacher has sent Parentsquare updates twice this year.

A class weekly summary would be useful, but I would not expect the teacher to send me an individualized summary about my child every week in public school. Even in private school, doing that for 15 kids would take forever.  I also don't expect daycare type summaries. But it's a huge gap from a weekly type summary to the feeling of 'your child met the benchmark, so they are fine and we don't have to worry about them'. They are still a person. I would like for our student to learn something even if they met or exceeded the benchmark. This may not have been the intended message, but the overall feeling I got was that unless they are disruptive or flagged by the district as not meeting the minimum scores, they are going to get lost in the shuffle / fall in the cracks / saddled with busy work / insert cliche phrase here.

I can see how the teacher makes a huge, huge difference. Our neighbors who are with different teachers seem thrilled.  Are we allowed to ask for teachers? I doubt they would allow that. [/quote]

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