Chogram posted:
While you guys are circlejerking this idea... allow me to impose some real world logic on you.
Criteria for parent grades:
Attendance at parent conferences
I work from 7am to 3:30pm. Conferences usually end at 4 and there are a lot of parents to fit into a very small time frame meaning
that I either have to take a vacation day or just hope that if my child is bad enough you'll send home a note.
That can be remedied by requiring parents to attend if their child is failing. Our conferences are from 5 to 8 PM.
Child grades
A student who struggles with grades may be just as much the schools fault(bullying or a bad teacher) as the parents. If you have
an inattentive teacher and a student who gets his *** beat during recess you may be punishing the wrong people.
This one makes me laugh. Bullying is almost never the issue if the child has low reading or math scores or is a giant pain in the ass in multiple classrooms.
Child unexcused absences
They already do this. Your child misses too much school(edit: I had work here?) they redo the year.
We're talking unexcused absences here.
No responses (due to apathy or bad phone numbers) to teacher-initiated communication
I hope you plan on calling me during your personal after school hours because if you call me at work and it's not
an emergency I'm likely going to hang up on you.
We already do most of our parent calling after school because there is no time to do it during school. I have made special arrangements with parents who cannot be reached during the day. It's the parents who, despite multiple attempts by the teacher, never return a phone call.
Failure of students to bring back signed documents
Because no kids have ever hidden those or thrown them away
Your kid, your responsibility. School communications go home (even dial-outs) and it should be common sense that SOMETHING, a progress report, a report card, a cafeteria or immunization form, SOMETHING is coming down the pipe in the near future. You probably make an effort to keep track of these things, some parents do not.
(Optional) Amount of participation in school activities.
Like what? Your kids's concerts or those ignorant fundraisers that the PTO hold
every other damn month? Some of us would rather spend our short times at home with the
kids instead of around 1000 unruly children and teachers.
If my kid is performing I'll be there, but I'll be damned if I'm going to waste my time at Trick or Trunk or "Pay $10 for a hotdog" night.
Sign up for a school activity, such as the one your child is attending. Done.
