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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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 still have a kid in elementary school.  She gets lots of papers sent home including all her tests which are on paper and her writing notebooks which she brings home because sometimes she needs to finish work at home.  Ask your teacher to see more of the work.  That’s your right.[/quote]
I've asked and teachers have declined.  They especially don't send home math grades.  Those tests are all online so we don't see them.  I met with the language arts teacher at the fall conference so got to see some writing examples for the fall.  The spring conference will be with the math teacher so I'll see some math grades in Feb/March, but won't get any more feedback on language arts outside of these stupid report cards.

#theAPSway[/quote]

What is it you want to do with all these grades and work? How would it change your behavior? Do you have a genuine concern that your child has dyslexia, dysgraphia or something that you are trying to suss out? If so, ask to have another conversation. The APS way is actually typically to be very accommodating to parent requests (I'm a parent, not a teacher), even the many requests that are probably way out of bounds. I'm unclear on why you want so much feedback/what you would do with it. [/quote]
I just like to keep an eye on how they're doing. For instance, my oldest is a really good math student but occasionally struggles with topics. When tests used to come home, I could see that she was struggling with a topic, e.g., elapsed time, and then could work on that skill at home. But now I don't see test scores or worksheets, as every thing is online and there is no digital gradebook. So I have no idea if she isn't getting a particular topic so I can't reinforce if there are gaps.  [/quote]

If you have a really good math student have confidence that if she didn’t get the skill, they will review it at various points (because they do) and she will get it.  The level of insight and control you want to have is not realistic.

Some of you have a lot of time on your hands.  I feel bad for the teachers.[/quote]
I mean, I eventually found out she didn't understand elapsed time because she got it wrong on the SOL and I showed her a problem as summer review and she had no idea how to do it.  So no, not all gaps are filled.  I would have preferred to fill the gap when she struggled during the school year, but unit test scores aren't shared with parents.

Expecting to see graded unit tests is not unreasonable.  That was standard before covid and everything moving online.  It's really strange, IMO, that schools are hoarding this information while moving to less transparent report cards.  [/quote]

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