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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not sure what you expect?  Your kid is in high school.  You don’t need to see his grades in real time.  DC is at another big 3 and there is no way for the parents to see grades in real time.  It’s the norm at a lot of schools.  As for the copy editing comment, what exactly did your kid ask?  If he wants somebody to go through line by line, that is not the norm either.  Kids at these schools are not spoonfed information where all they have to do is regurgitate what they memorized.  Is this your first year at a private school in general?[/quote]

NCS grad and English teacher here. They should not copy edit his paper. But they absolutely should be going through his paper line by line and giving feedback. That's one of the reason to pay for private - high quality feedback on writing so you develop better writing skills.

Are you switching from public, OP? My kids are in public and I understand the need to have access to their grades in high school because kids fall thru the cracks and teachers often don't let you know if your kid is flailing. But in private they *should* notice and follow up with the kid and eventually the parents if the kid is not turning stuff in.

Also, unless he's a legacy or something, if your kid got into gds at ninth, he's probably a pretty good student. He will probably be ok.[/quote]

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