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[quote=Anonymous]How fo you title your emails?

The teachers have around 150 students to manage and get a ton of emails.  Answering emails is a HUGE time suck at any job, especially if you get a couple of high needs people emailing who want to argue.

I always have luck getting a quick response from teachers, because I make the title of the email very clear so the teacher has an idea of the question and priority at a glance before opening the email.

When you email, put your student's name, class period and a BRIEF explaination of the topic of the email in the header.

For example:

"Larla Jones, 5th period English, quick homework question Shakespeare project"

Or:

"Larla Jones, 2nd period science, IMPORTANT safety issue Tuesday's lab"

Or:

"Larla Jones, 1st period choir, absence reminder (low priority)"

If you have a simple question that can be answered in 3 minutes, or an important, time sensitive issue, make that clear in the topic.

Put in your kids name, subject and class period.  This is really important because the teachers won't necessarily match your email to the kid, or the class period.  They might have 12 emails in their inbox that morning, all with the header "late assignment" and 9 emails with the title "book report" from parents with emails like soccerfamily5 or susant1987 that give no indication of which student the email goes with.

The teachers get a TON of emails.   If you want a quick answer, make it obvious to the teacher which kid the email is about and what the topic is.

To the note of the teacher not responding to you about your kid's late homework not being in the gradebook:

A)  This is not an email issue with parents, unless it is a pattern of your kid not turning in the homework.  One or two late assignments is not email worthy and just clogs up the teacher's inbox so they miss important stuff.

B)  Missing homework is the responsibility for your teen/preteen to verbally confirm with the teacher that it was received.

C)  If the assignment is digital, then your student can log into schoology with you to confirm the assignment was submitted.  Schoology clearly inficates the status of submitted assignments.  You DO NOT need additional teacher email confirmation if schoology shows it as submitted.

D)  In middle and high school, late assignments ALWAYS get graded at the end or later in the quarter, without exception or with very rare exception.  The teachers have 150 students to grade.  Going backwards for a kid who didn't turn things in makes their work more difficult and delays grades for the 85 students who turned everything in on time.  As long as your kid received verbal communication that the assignment was received by tge teacher (in person assignments) or schoology confirmation that the assignment was submitted, then they are good to go and you do not need to bother the teacher with emails about the late homework.

Yes, you and your kid will need to look at that glaring zero for weeks until the grade is entered at the end of the quarter.  Yes, your kids SIS might show a C minus all month because of that zero.

This is okay.

In fact, it is a good life lesson.

Middle school grades don't actually count, so take this as an opportunity to teach your kid the valuable lesson that their lack of planning or disorganization is not someone else's emergency.

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