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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I also think, at least at the elementary level, it’s crazy that a kid has as many as 10 things to submit in one day and we’re expected to micro manage from home all of that.  In normal times, this would have been ordinary class work that parents never saw.  It’s not homework.  If you see your kid doing his work, if he has a demonstrated ability to manage the technology, why would you think you needed to micro manage in canvas?  Until your kid has burned you by stealthfully disengaging with the submission process , it may be difficult to appreciate how irritating it is to learn your kid’s teacher is perfectly happy to just ignore the fact that all assignments are missing. Why should I be the only one who cares if my kid submitted a single assignment over a 3 month period?  Even if I’m  the worst mother ever, he’s entitled to an education and he deserves a teacher who will at least try to get to the bottom of the complete absence of any submitted course work for an entire quarter.  Doesn’t matter that some moms check parentvue or canvas more regularly.  Doesn’t matter how easy it is. That’s obviously not happening in the house of the kid who is missing 100 assignments, and that should be eye-poppingly clear to the teacher.[/quote]

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People here are so sympathetic about the poor immigrant families who don't have time to help their kids; but if you're not one of them, you're an incompetent parent with incompetent, irresponsible, lying children. 
You are absolutely right - as a parent, we should be able to expect that the teacher would contact us if there's a problem they aren't able to resolve with the student. I wish people would make up their minds:  are we supposed to let our children develop independence and responsibility and be more hands-off?  or are we supposed to be micro-managing until they're out of high school?[/quote]

[b]I do wonder if this mom is one of the people on here that has been complaining that their kid hasn't done anything in class all year and hasn't learned anything,[/b] because if so I guess this explains why -- they were not actually following along in class and doing the work the other kids were doing.

But honestly, I would expect this teacher to try to get in touch with the parent/s.  If a whole week of content has gone by, in elementary school, with no submissions from a kid and spotty attendance as well (I'm assuming?), then I would expect attempts at communication.  It's weird to me that you weren't contacted, especially if you kid was not actually "appearing" in class.  I think the schools are required to have contact in those situations.  And you should have been receiving absentee reports from the school this whole time, like same- or next-day reports of absenteeism.  Could there be a problem here where maybe dad was listed as contact and was not informing you of them and/or other school communications?  I frankly have trouble believing that your kid in an Arlington school went 3 months without turning any except 1 assignment in and no teachers or administrators attempted to call you to warn you about the problem and to try to get more participation out of your kid.  I dunno, sounds weird.  But I agree, if true, bad.  (Parents still should have been checking in on ParentVue and not expecting their elementary school kid to handle their education on their own, but even so, school should be taking steps as well.)[/quote]

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