Seriously, though, I wonder if your standards are unrealistically high. Perhaps it's a regional thing, but the communications you describe outperform what I've experienced from most of the teachers in our well-regarded public school. We tend to get newsletters once a month, mostly..., on the good months. My 5th grader's team of teachers has no website at all (though other 5th grade teams do) and that's at the middle school level. My 3rd grader's teacher has a website, but it is mostly links to math practice sites, etc, and not current information. This is pretty standard in our school- if they have a website, it is for general information, but not the day-to-day stuff.
Hi Cricket3,
I agree with you 100% - that is the way it is, and according to current practices my standards are unreasonably high. But why? I've done it - it's really easy to just make a list of this stuff. I don't understand why it's not required of all elementary teachers. I think in the medium to long term it would save the teachers time and the benefit to kids and parents would be huge.
