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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh my. All this microscopic following of grades and parental management is exhausting to me. Just.can’t. Do. It. I have kids still in DCPS and kids in college. It all worked out, getting into college, without all of the stressful monitoring and intervening. I know it depends on the student, but why not try letting go and seeing what happens? Intervention could be saved for when your student asks for your help. Good luck everyone. Life’s too short…[/quote]
The cycle for literally every single DCPS family that I know — particularly those with kids who struggle with LDs and/or ADDH —  looks something like this:

Parent intends to let kid handle things and doesn’t look at Aspen until end of  the advisory.  Kid has Fs or Ds posted in multiple classes.

Parents freak out and yell at kid.

Kid says “I turned all of those things in.”

Parent asks kid to contact teacher.

Kid talks to teacher.  Teacher claims items not turned in, won’t listen to kid.  Kid asks parent for help.

Parent emails teacher.

Teacher ignores the email.

Parent emails again and cc:s admin.

Teacher responds “Oh, I found the assignment”, or “Aspen isn’t working for me”, or some random excuse.

Extra points when parent requests a meeting after teacher has insisted that kid didn’t turn in the work, and during the meeting parent happens to look down and see one “missing” assignment for their kid literally sitting on the teacher’s desk and then finds another gathering dust at the bottom of the tray where kids are supposed to turn in work — along with weeks of other “missing” work for other students.

My kid at Wilson got to the point that they emailed teachers a copy of all assignments before handing them in (they’d use CamScanner to take a scan of handwritten work).  This was the story for elementary, middle, and high school.  [/quote]

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