Anonymous wrote:As always, the useful information is in the comments and parent teacher conferences.

Anonymous wrote:They now take some kind of math and reading inventory 3x a year right? And you can see the questions they missed right? (Please correct me if I’m wrong but think this is right.)

Why is this information not enough for you. This is a lot more objective than what your individual teacher decided to test on or how they decided to test. There is huge variation on how teachers test and grade which is normal and you will see as they go through middle and high school.

Anonymous wrote:How common is it for elementary students to be taking all their tests online? Not happening in my APS elementary school.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

Anonymous wrote:So my 2nd grader has all 2s, and that is okay? But if she has a 1 she’s failing??

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Not that PP, and I have an older kid in addition to one in ES. The frustration is that we had a perfectly adequate, clear system for reporting how kids were doing in school (report cards with A, B, C, etc), and this was scraped and replaced with a convoluted, non-sensical system. No, it’s not the end of the world, but it’s annoying.

And as others have said, my child brings home very little completed work. I never see her graded tests. No, the scores are not in parentvue for ES. She will tell me how she did on tests— otherwise, I would never know. What is the point of keeping all this information from parents?

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

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

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.