Oh my. All this microscopic following of grades and parental management is exhausting to me. Just.can’t. Do. It. I have kids still in DCPS and kids in college. It all worked out, getting into college, without all of the stressful monitoring and intervening. I know it depends on the student, but why not try letting go and seeing what happens? Intervention could be saved for when your student asks for your help. Good luck everyone. Life’s too short…

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Anonymous wrote: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?

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, 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. Hopefully it won't come to all that though.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:I was told we’d get “progress reports” for the purposes of discussion at the PT meeting and that the report would be in ASPEN. When I looked in ASPEN, there isn’t a report but just a notice of progress grade. Is there an actual report that we will be given?

Yes there will be a progress report and written comments (it is kind of generic though) and teachers are only required to give comments for C,Ds and Fs from what I heard. Likely will be posted tomorrow (and whenever it is actually posted) if you email is connected, you will get an email that the progress report is there.

I've had 3 students go through Deal and there have never been any written comments (on the progress report or report cards) besides the teachers pressing options like "does good work" or "participates in class". There is no free form or personalized text or anything like that.

Anonymous wrote: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?

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, 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. Hopefully it won't come to all that though.

Anonymous wrote:I was told we’d get “progress reports” for the purposes of discussion at the PT meeting and that the report would be in ASPEN. When I looked in ASPEN, there isn’t a report but just a notice of progress grade. Is there an actual report that we will be given?

Yes there will be a progress report and written comments (it is kind of generic though) and teachers are only required to give comments for C,Ds and Fs from what I heard. Likely will be posted tomorrow (and whenever it is actually posted) if you email is connected, you will get an email that the progress report is there.

Anonymous wrote:I was told we’d get “progress reports” for the purposes of discussion at the PT meeting and that the report would be in ASPEN. When I looked in ASPEN, there isn’t a report but just a notice of progress grade. Is there an actual report that we will be given?

No, progress reports are just grades. There is no written report or comments.

I was told we’d get “progress reports” for the purposes of discussion at the PT meeting and that the report would be in ASPEN. When I looked in ASPEN, there isn’t a report but just a notice of progress grade. Is there an actual report that we will be given?

I would have your kid confirm with the teacher that the teacher is in possession of the assignments and just hasn't graded them. The only time my student had "WS" for grades last year was when they turned in an assignment late because of an absence. In our experience, teachers sometimes took a week or so to grade these assignments. If the teacher says they don't have them (even if your kid turned them in), then you have a different problem. In any case, I would have your kid do the follow-up and only get involved if s/he is unsuccessful after a couple of tries.

We have the same issue. I had my kid follow up, with no success. (Teacher said she didn’t have time to talk about it.) I’m signed up for a parent-teacher conference tomorrow to address it. Not sure what else to do.

6th grade is low stakes. I would have the kid do this follow-up. By high school they will want to be able to approach teachers about this kind of thing and now is a good time to practice those skills.

Maybe they are not finished yet?

6th

What grade is your kid in?

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?