Sending out failure emails
By NJ Chicaa
@NJChicaa (120142)
United States
May 15, 2024 5:06pm CST
Back in the Stone Age when I started teaching (23 years ago) we didn't have online grading programs that parents could access in real time. We hand wrote comments on report cards, kept grades in paper gradebooks, and sent progress reports home in paper form which students could steal and hide. Parent communication was a big deal since we didn't have a great way to do that.
Fast forward to today. Parents have access to their students' grades in real time. (I update them daily) Progress reports and report cards are just released digitally through same program.
But there is a long-standing rule that teachers have to personally call a parent if their student won't pass a class. Wait? What? These days they can see their student's grade day by day. Yeah I'm not making calls. I just don't. I'm sending out emails though. Hey if report cards can go out that way then so can a warning about student progress that parents could see every day all school year long.
I will get very few responses but I just document it so no one can say that I didn't issue the warning. 
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4 responses
@RasmaSandra (80783)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
15 May
That is the one thing I cannot understand. If parents have such east access to their student progress then why don't they encourage the students who don't do well to do better.
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@RasmaSandra (80783)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
15 May
@NJChicaa that is a very sorry thing, Whatever happened to ABBAs I Kissed the Teacher????
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@kaylachan (71804)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
16 May
Parents will try too burry their heads in the sand, reguardless. those same parents who ignore the grading system, would more than likely ignore a phone call or e-mail. At least you can say you tried.
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@sallypup (61643)
• Centralia, Washington
15 May
Those dinosaur days. It took a whole of guts and determination that my hubby got his Aeronautics and Aeronautical degree. He often had trouble finding readers for those important texts.
@HaruLoid (1588)
• Philippines
16 May
I understand where you are going with this, but I also understand the reason why calls are preferred when informing a parent.
Some parents are neglectful to their child's educational status, that is why calling is most likely preferred because it is the fastest and most effective way to inform them.
Some parents may not even look into their child's educational status that much because they have great trust to their child, without even knowing that their child is slowly starting to decline in class participations, submission of homework and alike.
