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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With progress reports due out soon, my kid's teachers are posting a lot of last minute grades, including one teacher who posted two 50% percent grades that say "WS" (waiting submittal).  The thing is, I know for a fact that my kid submitted these assignments.

Does anyone have any advice for how to minimize the stress involved with following up to get those grades changed, or even better, how to avoid them from being graded wrong in the first place?  [/quote]

I know that it is annoying and I have experienced this for the past three years with my 8th grader in one way or another, but try not to stress. These are only progress reports, not the report card. When this has happened, [b]I monitor for the next couple of days to a week and then follow up with the teacher myself. If the teacher won't respond, I follow up with the Assistant Principal and so on. [/b]Hopefully it won't come to all that though. [/quote]

You are NUTS.  
You (the parent) are emailing teachers and then bothering the assistant principal?  Why is your kid not asking the teacher and then following up by email?
 I can see why the teachers are not responding: they are likely waiting for your 8TH GRADER to learn to self advocate.    [/quote]

This is exactly the attitude of so many at Deal. However, not all kids can do that themselves. Kids with ADHD, anxiety, and other neuro divergence are routinely overlooked in Deal. The school DOES NOT support these students with the types of interventions known to assist students and families to ensure the students can grow to take on these responsibilities. In fact, our kid (who also falls in this group) got almost no support in 6th grade (due to pandemic and no school all year) and in 7th grade there was NO COUNSELLOR for 7th grade for more than half the school year (so our kid got no where near the support required in their 504 plan). under these conditions, parents are left to support the only way they know how.

This is NOT insane- it is NOT hovering- it is NOT "NUTS". If your kiddo can do all of that work themselves and self-advocate, that is great. STFU about how others have to approach supporting their kids to get to the same spot. Understand this is a huge struggle for many of us and we are trying to encourage and help our kids navigate a huge school with poor parent communication and very little in the way of special education services/supports.

To the OP and PPs, I feel you. We have to do the same and encourage you to reach out to the counselling team if this is a constant issue for you. We were able to work with them to finally get teachers the right 504 plan (because Deal hadn't done that by themselves) and create a system for checking in about homework assignments/quizzes/etc. instead of waiting for progress reports to highlight all they were missing.

Good luck[/quote]

THANK YOU!

One thing my kid is currently anxious about is there a lot of "ungraded" work from one teacher in Aspen and my kid has no idea where he stands in the class if all that work was to be graded.  I guess we'll find out.   [/quote]

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