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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The achievement gap in ES is minimal? Come to a high FARMS school like mine and talk to the students. Watch them in class. Read them books. You will see right away that this is not true. As for the teacher, communicating with parents about student weaknesses only works if  1) you can get in touch with parents   2) the parents are interested in school and how their child(ren) are doing. I am a teacher and I keep a log with a few pages for each student. Every time I attempt to contact parents, I make a note. Out of my class of 24, 9 of them have parents I have never met or talked to. I have contacted them a minimum of 10 times each. I have called and left messages, sent home notes, emailed if an email address was provided, texted and had the social worker make a home visit. Your solution to improvement only works if someone at home is on board. At my school, the struggling students are usually the ones whose parents are MIA. The only learning happening in these kids' lives is at school. Other parents don't understand that school is a lot different than it used to be. The KG teachers have monthly workshops for parents and the few parents that attend had no idea that their kids would have to be reading in KG. They thought if they knew their letters and could count to 10, they would be good to go. At the end of the year, report cards are kept in the office for parents to pick up. They can pick them up M-F all summer. By the time we return to school, half to 3/4 of the report cards are still sitting in the office.[/quote]

Yes, yes to this. If you are a parent who is involved and care about your child's education, you shouldn't have a problem getting the feedback that you are seeking. [/quote]

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