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[quote=Anonymous]I would not have expected the teacher to have reached out to you. I do think it’s fine to contact the teacher.

I also think that middle school is where kids start to learn to advocate for themselves so I would not expect a middle schooler to be able to effectively talk to the teacher. And you wouldn’t be satisfied with the information you got if you went this route. So you shouldn’t set your kid up to fail by expecting them to handle it. It’s too big of an issue.

One thing I will say is that I don’t know what you’ll hear from the teacher and it may not match what your child has told you. So be prepared for that. What you said doesn’t make a lot of sense and it seems like there are missing pieces of information.

Last thing. When you contact the teacher be sure you know what your goal is. Do you want a do over? - unlikely to happen. Do you want to understand what went wrong - both with the learning and with the fact that both you and your child were seemingly woefully ignorant of problems?  May be helpful but you can’t change the past so it’s usefulness might be limited. Do you want to know how to get back on track and be successful for next semester - to me this would be most important and I’d want to know how to get interim glimpses of proficiency throughout the rest of the year so you know if you need to assist your child with securing interventions if necessary.

Personally I would contact the teacher to figure out how to be successful moving forward, but with full knowledge that I might not have gotten the whole story from my kids. [/quote]

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