Can parents get a weekly progress report?
Because of on-line grades, weekly progress reports are unnecessary. Nonetheless, a grade report does not give a true understanding of a student’s progress. So many projects in my class have pieces that I will collect as a packet of work after considerable time. Students’ grades will remain the same for many weeks until a packet is collected and graded. A weekly progress report does nothing to tell parents about work that was supposed to be done that week. If parents would like to monitor students, they need to check the daily agenda on my website and ask their student to show them the work. Relying on the progress report system without monitoring daily assignments on the web will be problematic. I would prefer that parents get their students to do their work rather than find out after the fact that they haven’t. When I send out computer-generated progress reports, I provide a list of work students should have in their binders. Parents should ask their students to show them all the item
