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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kids are in upper elementary school. Most of my emails to the teacher are administrative (e.g. kid is out sick) beyond that, I maybe email once or twice a year. Yet I know some people seem to be in frequent communication with teachers. Am I unusual? Should I be emailing more? Or if you’re regularly in contact is it about specific issues?[/quote]

I’m a teacher and a parent.

I don’t email my kids’ teachers unless I need to update them about something serious, like an extended absence.

Teachers are swamped. I don’t feel right adding to their workloads. [/quote]

This response is confusing to me. I get not emailing teachers all the time but I don't see emailing the teacher about something important as "adding to their workloads." If it's important, it's already part of their workload, and an email might even make it easier -- info is power.

Like the ADHD example or the kid who lost a grandparents -- letting the teacher know stuff like that doesn't add to their workload, it provides them with useful info that can help them deal with the kid in class without having to wonder what's going on.

Obviously if people are emailing teachers asking them to do extra work, that's a different thing, but does anyone who is not a cartoon villain actually do that? I cannot imagine.[/quote]

I’m the PP you’re responding to. I have 150 students, just for reference.

As I wrote above, I totally get the important emails. Email away. I’m happy to respond and I’ll do it before I leave work.

But I also have multiple parents who regularly email me 15 minutes after I update the gradebook, demanding justification for the score. I return work to students with plenty of feedback, but these parents don’t even wait for their children to come home to view it. I also get “how’d he do today” check-ins, which are fine until I get 20-25 of them.

My child is one student. The teachers are receiving emails about 150 different students. I’m only going to email if it’s absolutely necessary.

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You must teach at a wealthy high school [/quote]

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