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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If this is a problem, your child needs to be keeping up with the material more as it is taught. Maybe study some every night instead of cramming.  [/b]You are well on the path to being a helicopter mom whose child will never grow up if you always blame the teacher and not realize that one of the most important skills to learn as a child is how to adapt to varying expectations.  [b]Do not shelter her, help her learn to deal with the system.  Now she knows.  There will not be much warning, so she must keep up-to-date on the information.[/quote]

Oh please. Why are people so quick to through out the "helicopter mom" label?  I have not said one word to the teacher. I haven't even said anything to my child. It just seems a little sudden to me and I'm wondering what others think. Isn't that what forums are for?[/quote]

OP, please don't sweat the posts with typical DCUM snarkiness. Posters here love to accuse any parent who cares about their kid's day to day school life of being a helicopter parent. Do anything more than tell Johnny to "Go do your homework"--take any interest, know your kid's schedule, know what topics your kid is actually learning, question the way a teacher does anything--and you're an overbearing helicopter parent! God forbid you should teach Johnny that there are actual study skills that might help him learn to learn.

I am with you, OP. While two days was pretty typical in some of my child's elementary classes, in others she got more notice and she preferred that, so she felt she knew what was coming well in advance. Someone posted how anxious kids are stressed if they get too much notice, but what about kids who are stressed by what they feel is too little notice?

Planned, scheduled and incremental studying is not equivalent to panicked "cramming," as some posters here think, and all the talk about "your child should have kept on top of the material all along!" is easily said, but some teachers actually do expect students to do additional studying for a unit test--studying that just keeping up day by day won't necessarily fulfill. A unit test or exam should stretch kids a little (and a lot by the time they're older).  If kids don't start learning to plan ahead and study a little bit, all along, before tests in elementary, they will be swamped in middle school and lost in high school.

OP, watch out for the time when your kid is given two nights' notice for a test and that's fine, but then finds out there's another test that same day and another assignment due in a third class....
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