I’m a teacher and teach over 130 students. My suggestion is that you check his grades weekly and contact the teacher weekly to find out if he has stayed up to date.
what the shit? When I was in grade school, if we missed a homework assignment we got a “pink slip” stating such, which we had to get signed by a parent and returned to the teacher within a few days.
so no, I wouldn’t think it’s unreasonable.
It will happen again and it is not reasonable to ask the teacher for this. I have two kids - I don’t believe that any of their teachers would have the time to do this. I can go to the schools’ website and into each teachers’ class website and check on grades when I need to.
Probably a good thing I’m not a teacher. I can think of no reason I’d give a student or a parent my cell number. As a lawyer, I almost never give clients my cell number, and the few times that I have, I’ve usually regretted it. I’ll deal with you and your problems during working hours. Otherwise, leave a message on the office phone, and I’ll get back to you when it is convenient for me. Which will definitely not be during a ball game I’m watching, or other part of my personal life.
I don’t give my students or parents my cellphone number. I usually teach about 600 kids. E-mail all the way, and since it’s a Blackberry I can a nswer on the fly.
At school we have an in-house-developed system for the parents to check grades, but we don’t register every single assingment turned in.
I had to stay in at recess and write 500x (second offense was 1000x)
‘I will not forget to do my homework’.
One time I had to do it on the blackboard, it sounded like fun. It wasn’t.
Thanks for the feed back guys.
Looks like weekly email it is.
(My sucky school doesn’t have any online resources.)
Yes, do the email thing. I would never, for any reason, give my personal number to any parent or student, but my work email is available to all of them and if you email me, I will answer. Our parents are supposed to provide an email address, and those who do get a lot more communication from me than those who don’t. When I’m working a twelve hour day and then going home to work some more, the last thing I need is having to take ten or fifteen minutes to communicate something over the phone or by note that I could have sent by email in less than a minute. Also, you emailing the teacher for them to quickly respond will be appreciated if they have any sense, rather than making it all on them to remember which of their hundreds of students it was who needed chasing.
Only if the teachers update it regularly. Of my son’s 5 classes, three teachers are totally up to date on a daily basis. One teacher updates about once a week and one every couple of weeks.
IANAT, but to me “special snowflake” in this context isn’t “tell me if he’s not doing his work so I can fix the problem”; it’s “I don’t care if he’s not doing his work; I think he’s above that sort of thing.” And that’s the opposite of what you’re asking.