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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you all have only children or first kids?

Who cares.  It’s not that deep.  Look at the papers they bring home every week.  Monitor standardized test screeners and SOLs.  And just relax until middle school.[/quote]
You have to realize the changes since your kids were in elementary.  Now we don't get papers sent home.  Tests are on the iPad so we never see scores.  (My student isn't allowed to bring her iPad home, even if I wanted to poke around and try to find scores.)  For language arts, writing is done in a notebook that stays at school and CKLA and 95Phonics are done in workbooks that stay at school.  Other work is submitted on the iPad.  At most my student brings home a couple of worksheets for social studies or science, but even those are intermittent.  Work isn't sent home like it used to be.  [/quote]

I'm not the pp but I agree with them. And I have an elementary kid. It really isn't that deep. If your child is getting mostly 2s, they are fine. It may not be perfect, large systems usually aren't. And it is still ok. The CKLA and 95 phonics workbooks do come home eventually. We've already seen one this year. if you are so worried to see them, they will come. The tests they take on their ipad, you get the scores in parentvue. And I would be shocked if you aren't getting at least a few papers home each week, we certainly do. And you have conferences in the fall. If you have specific concerns, raise them and ask for another conference which is always available but I am just unclear on what could be so anxiety producing about 2nd, 3rd etc grade. The kids are already taking crazy amount of tests, results of which you are getting at beginning, middle, and end of year that give you a pretty good view of math and reading.

What is it you're wanting to see? Look for these things: is your child's reading progressing over time? Are they understanding the beginning, middle, and end of a story? Are they starting to write more complex sentences? These are things that are pretty easy to see by reading with your child, observing what they are reading, having them write a letter to grandma, etc etc. I'm just unclear what you are hoping to get from the report card in these early grades.[/quote]

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