1st school day chatter…

1st school day chatter…

Ashley reported that her 1st day of school was “OK”. This is the typical teenage answer
I think she liked it more than she was willing to admit. She said all her teachers were nice and that she had a good day. This is good. Usually on the first day, she would come home with all the news on the BAD teachers. She had nothing negative to say on any of them. She did talk to us about some nice things in school. AND, I only thought we were through on school supplies. I guess some of the teachers invent needed supplies…like…a 400 count of POST IT NOTES?!
(is this for the teacher? Or the kid? HAHA!)

The school has what is called a PARENT PORTAL. This is where parents can monitor grades, lunch money, lunch purchases, absences, and receive emails from teachers. It also gives the student’s class schedule and access to email teachers. They have updated the site to allow teachers to list assignments for day to day to the whole year if they choose. Some teachers have done WONDERFUL and others have done nothing. Several of Ashley’s teachers have done wonderfully on this already. Her physics teacher has everything planed out through the end of OCTOBER. (She isn’t even teaching the first 6 weeks due to having a baby but has taken the time to get the site ready for her students!!!)
Ashley’s English teacher has vocabulary and literary terms listed for the WHOLE year. Ashley can never use the excuse that she left her words at school, if we have access to a computer, she can have the words right at her fingertips! I like this. OF COURSE, Ashley says “DEATH TO THE PARENT PORTAL! RUE THE DAY IT WAS INVENTED!”
I think it is great communication skills on behalf of the school . NOW we just hope all the teachers come on board. I know it is time consuming for them but if they had done the planning in the summer like the other teachers, they could have it all set up by now.
Oh well, just an opinion..hehehe.