← This is our first student weekly wrap up email

tcr! tcr! · Sep 7, 2018 at 12:41 pm

--- Original Message ---
From: Magdelyn Annabell
Subject: Weekly Wrapup Email 
Date: September 7, 2018 at 10:20:18 AM CDT

Hello to parents,

This is our first student weekly wrap up email, so students are editing this to include other information at the top.
 
My grade in Science is currently: A
 
I have the following activities as a NHI that I need to complete and mark on the Late Work Notification Sheet in Class: None
 
Our next Test is: Friday the 14th

Have a great weekend,
your daughter Maggie who thinks this is pointless :)

❤️ #maggie #email

keamoose · Sep 7, 2018 at 12:52 pm

My friend’s daughter just started school, and he was telling me all the parents are required to download a secure app on their phones for school communications and verify their identity by scanning a QR code. So at least you only get a pointless email. 🤣

tcr! tcr! · Sep 7, 2018 at 1:56 pm

My mom used to get a letter in the mail. That seemed a whole lot easier 😊

keamoose · Sep 7, 2018 at 2:08 pm

As far as I remember, we just got a report card at the end of the term. Typing that just caused a sudden flashback to grade 6, where the teacher insisted that she had to put the report card envelope into our backpacks herself instead of handing them to us (apparently this would somehow prevent us from opening and reading it?) I was the only one in my class who objected to this, on the grounds that she had no right to put her hands in my backpack, not to mention her idea was stupid because I could just take it out again as soon as I left the room.

I’ll add from the vantage point of several decades later, it was in fact MY report card and I should be allowed to read it. I don’t quite recall, but I must have eventually caved because she said wouldn’t let us leave otherwise. I wish I’d held out a bit longer, because eventually she would have had to give in or she’d have gotten in trouble. My mom would have backed me on that. Wow, apparently I’m still a little mad about this. 🤨

Anyway, I guess the direct emails to parents are the logical extension of kids not being permitted to read their own report cards back in 1991. And I stand by my 11-year-old self’s protest.