Yeah, the framing of this post is ridiculous. I have to sign a sheet every single week affirming I looked at my child's grades for that week online (since they no longer send home graded papers).
Parents using that information to argue with and berate the schools and teachers is a separate issue (though even that I have more sympathy to t…
Yeah, the framing of this post is ridiculous. I have to sign a sheet every single week affirming I looked at my child's grades for that week online (since they no longer send home graded papers).
Parents using that information to argue with and berate the schools and teachers is a separate issue (though even that I have more sympathy to than this post gives it - maybe the schools are great in suburban New York, but in bum-eff Louisiana where I live the education has been ... inconsistent, to put it kindly. I don't argue with grades, but I have had to intervene to get my kids remedial instruction or other support where they just weren't getting and never would from the school and kept failing in the meantime).
I don't think it's ridiculous at all. And your interventions are almost certainly not making any difference for your kid's eventual performance percentile.
Parents are being harassed by schools to force the parents to get on the kids to do busy work. Schools are pushing parents to intervene with their kids, to be extra hall monitors and teacher's aids. The schools, aided by technology, is pushing this.
This is very different from helicopter parents. It has gotten much worse since Covid.
None of the teachers I know want this either. I think it is a small cohort of overinvolved parents turned policy makers (and probably whoever is selling the software) who pushed for "transparency" and now everyone is stuck with the terrible result. You and Freddie are talking about the same nonsense.
That's fine. But the premise of the post is this new system allowing week-to-week monitoring is somehow the result of helicopter parenting, when it's not. Checking their grades weekly online is what my kids' school requires - at a crummy school system here in the south where the issue with parents is them not giving a shit or bothering to send their kids at all, not helicopter parenting.
I honestly thought the system was implemented to reduce accountability, not facilitate parental involvement. The system it replaced wasn't quarterly report cards. It was weekly signed papers, where they'd send home paper copies of all the kids' graded assignments from the previous week.
The new, electronic system now just gives the grade but not the test itself - which is in a different online system not linked to from the one with the grades, making it harder for a curious parent to see what actually happened (and thus harder to complain). In addition to the effect of not requiring parents to sign on to an online platform in the first place, rather than sending home paper they can react to, which eliminated a big chunk of review right off the top.
Yeah, the framing of this post is ridiculous. I have to sign a sheet every single week affirming I looked at my child's grades for that week online (since they no longer send home graded papers).
Parents using that information to argue with and berate the schools and teachers is a separate issue (though even that I have more sympathy to than this post gives it - maybe the schools are great in suburban New York, but in bum-eff Louisiana where I live the education has been ... inconsistent, to put it kindly. I don't argue with grades, but I have had to intervene to get my kids remedial instruction or other support where they just weren't getting and never would from the school and kept failing in the meantime).
I don't think it's ridiculous at all. And your interventions are almost certainly not making any difference for your kid's eventual performance percentile.
Parents are being harassed by schools to force the parents to get on the kids to do busy work. Schools are pushing parents to intervene with their kids, to be extra hall monitors and teacher's aids. The schools, aided by technology, is pushing this.
This is very different from helicopter parents. It has gotten much worse since Covid.
None of the teachers I know want this either. I think it is a small cohort of overinvolved parents turned policy makers (and probably whoever is selling the software) who pushed for "transparency" and now everyone is stuck with the terrible result. You and Freddie are talking about the same nonsense.
I blame administration and the tech providers.
That's fine. But the premise of the post is this new system allowing week-to-week monitoring is somehow the result of helicopter parenting, when it's not. Checking their grades weekly online is what my kids' school requires - at a crummy school system here in the south where the issue with parents is them not giving a shit or bothering to send their kids at all, not helicopter parenting.
I honestly thought the system was implemented to reduce accountability, not facilitate parental involvement. The system it replaced wasn't quarterly report cards. It was weekly signed papers, where they'd send home paper copies of all the kids' graded assignments from the previous week.
The new, electronic system now just gives the grade but not the test itself - which is in a different online system not linked to from the one with the grades, making it harder for a curious parent to see what actually happened (and thus harder to complain). In addition to the effect of not requiring parents to sign on to an online platform in the first place, rather than sending home paper they can react to, which eliminated a big chunk of review right off the top.