Last week when I got 8th grade girl's school records, all I got was the standardized test record (in the form of a single line of print, giving the subtest, standard score, and label) for each grade it was taken (3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th), and her classes/grades from 7th grade. Oh, I got some nonsense blank forms that have to do with the cafeteria and the school nurse, but NONE of the stuff they have sent every year up until now. So I called and was told that the counselor will call me back. Which she never did, and then they were out for the storm. So I called again today and was told "oh, that's not our policy to send all the contents of the cumulative folder." Honey, that's what "cumulative" MEANS, now can I please have her records from K through 6th? I'll come pick them up, no need to waste stamps. :x "I'll call you when they're ready." Which likely means "when hell freezes over". :evil: I didn't have any trouble last year getting my now-9th grader's records. I had to mail the request for her brother's records, since he finished the year at a different school last year. We'll see what happens there. Aaaaargh!
Well, maybe if you were a REAL teacher that taught at a REAL school.... :roll: Don't you wish you could nicely tell her where she could take her records and shove them...:evil:?
They're probably hoping if they don't send them she'll stay and they'll get to keep the money they get for attending there
No hope they're keeping her - she's already signed out, withdrawn, not their student anymore. All the have to do is press print on the keyboard and print out every grade recorded since K with discipline and attendance, a couple of pages at the most. :twisted::twisted::twisted:
And I'm still mad about how they push kids through - this child had A's and B's last year, and is struggling with the 7th grade reader. She has not a clue how to break down and sound out an unfamiliar word. She doesn't get the questions, never mind the answers. I'm going to press on at this level for now, but I'm trying to decide whether to drop her reading at least one level. She and her brother are in the same R&S 5 English, and we were doing our lesson together yesterday - read the sentence, tell me whether its a statement or a question and what punctuation should end it. They both needed help reading the sentences, and a couple times guessed wrong about statement/question. :twisted:
I'm thinking that very soon all public school records will be online-only, and therefore available only to public schools who share the same computer system for records-keeping. If I don't get it on Tuesday, I'm going to ask the grandmother to go get it for me.
That is terrible that they are being like that. I am thankful that I had no problem getting all th kids records from the Charter school. Maybe it was easy because it was a charter school.
Called the school today, talked to a different secretary. While talking with her, somebody else in the background asked if that was me about this student, and then I was told the records were ready. When I got there (two whole blocks away) they handed them over just sweet as could be, so I was just as sweet back and thanked them SO much. They said they didn't have my phone number to call me about them being ready (I didn't mention that they never asked for it, either!).
