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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Aug 11, 2014 19:40:38 GMT
I'm asking about quantity of already finished classwork, homework, macaroni art, just pages and pages of paper. And some much larger poster-board art kind of things. I know when I was in elementary 80's & 90's, there was a considerable amount of papers sent home because my mom would put them in a paper grocery bag, and then toss them after we forgot about them, when we were sleeping. But now with my kids, it seems like so, so, so much more to have to sort and deal with. I'm a scrapper. I definitely keep the best. But it seems like everyday there is a ton of paperwork to sift through, sort, organize, and eventually discard. **And yes, for the record, I know it's summer break and the kids aren't in school, but it just popped into my head, and I wanted to discuss it.  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2014 19:49:57 GMT
I think everything came home at year end and it was a knapsack full and that's it. There weren't tons of papers or anything like that. He didn't have spelling words but knows how to spell. He did book reports (even though I have never seen him pick up a book). All that stuff never came home. I think a drama mask came one in Grade 7. A bowl he made out of clay (the teacher was his BFF's mom) so it is very special to us. We keep pretty rocks in it. Love that thing. That's it. He threw it all out. It's ok.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2014 20:02:35 GMT
I never thought my kids brought home any more than I did when I was in school.
There was lots, but I just didn't see a noticeable difference.
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Post by ginacivey on Aug 11, 2014 20:14:07 GMT
i don't think that every single paper completed at school needs to take the trip home
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Post by salem on Aug 11, 2014 20:21:07 GMT
Way too much paper came home with my first grader last year. I love to see projects and tests and stuff, but when it's every little stray crayon mark on paper stuffed in her backpack, it makes me crazy. Also, the constant stream of notices, sign up forms, etc. Why ask for my email address and set up school websites if you're also going to send everything home on paper too.
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Post by MonkeysInk on Aug 11, 2014 20:21:35 GMT
I use Keepsy to take photos and organize everything.
I keep envelopes addressed to the grandparents on the cabinet and divvy up artwork to go to them. They love getting kid artwork regularly, the kids love that I don't throw it away.
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Post by amom23 on Aug 11, 2014 20:24:31 GMT
Definitely a lot came home with my oldest, but not as much with my other 2. Of course it gets less and less the older the kids get, but with the new standards I don't think the teachers have as much time for the fun stuff and art is definitely on the back burner (at least at our school).
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Aug 11, 2014 20:27:01 GMT
i don't think that every single paper completed at school needs to take the trip home gina Exactly! Sometimes I think the teachers send them home so they/the school doesn't have to deal with disposing of them. I also think that the schools are playing it safe because you know there would always be parents raising hell if they didn't see every.single.sheet.of.paper their snowflake's pencil ever graced. |
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Aug 11, 2014 20:27:43 GMT
Way too much paper came home with my first grader last year. I love to see projects and tests and stuff, but when it's every little stray crayon mark on paper stuffed in her backpack, it makes me crazy. Also, the constant stream of notices, sign up forms, etc. Why ask for my email address and set up school websites if you're also going to send everything home on paper too. Yes! Please use my email if you ask for it during the year. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2014 20:50:04 GMT
I am sure this is the main reason. When I volunteered at my kids' schools, at more than one grade level I was told that they were required to send everything home because of parent complaints and the questioning of grades. I have witnessed more than one parent tantrum about "PROVE that classwork grade." During one baseball field discussion, I said, "Wouldn't the teacher's gradebook be proof?" and was told absolutely not. These parents wanted "documentation" of every single grade entered. How else can teachers do that if they don't send home every piece of paper? There really is no pleasing the public. Especially when it has to do with school.  If I were the teacher and I had to choose between listening to someone gripe about every piece of paper being sent home or a tantrum about "PROVE that my darling had a 50% (or whatever) average on classwork!!" then I'd probably pick the griping about all the paper-and how lazy the school staff was for not wanting to deal with disposing of the paper (  )
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Post by 950nancy on Aug 12, 2014 2:06:00 GMT
I don't send it all home, but if it was graded, it better go in the backpack. I have parents at conferences come up with the grades and want to go over every assignment. It is an itemized list and if it isn't in the pack, where did it go? We don't care about disposing them at school. We have a great recycling program and most of the practice stuff never leaves the school.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Aug 12, 2014 3:26:45 GMT
It's funny, because it completely changed in middle school here. I had to beg one teacher to give back a three-dimensional Greek ship my son made out of paper. The teacher stuck it someplace after grading and forgot it. On the last day of school he told my son he must have tossed it. I had to wait all summer and then catch him on the first day. I asked him to please look again because my son worked so hard on it. He managed to find it. Honestly, toss the quizzes but you don't toss elaborate pieces of art! Wow, that's a strange thing for a teacher to do. That would have upset me. On a related note, I have to take photos of all my kids major projects that they turn in (like when there is a "build a model" part to it, because often the teachers will tell the kids to just put the project on the table, and other students have access all day (or sometimes days) to touch it or mess with it before she ever gets around to looking at it and grading it. There has been more than one time when I've had to show a teacher the pics of what my child brought in versus what she saw three days later after kids ruined it by picking and poking at it. Pisses me off to no end. |
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Post by dulcemama on Aug 12, 2014 3:30:16 GMT
K-3 were the worst years here. I actually broke a toe stubbing it on a bag full of papers and projects that came home with DD one of those years. That's a lot of paper!
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Post by bsn22 on Aug 12, 2014 13:58:42 GMT
My MIL saved all of DH's artwork and has now bequeathed it on us to throw away since they are downsizing. Thank you for the doily snowman and frog report he made in 3rd grade. We have a lot of artwork sent home from the art room and a little from the classroom. It's manageable- I usually keep it and go through it at the end of the year or send it to grandma. Payback.  |
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Post by beth44 on Aug 12, 2014 14:08:50 GMT
My son got tons of papers sent home. (3rd grade). I like knowing what he's doing and I can quickly file 95% of it directly into the trash can or recycling. No biggie. At least I know what school work he is doing all day.
My poor sister, on the other hand, did not get a single paper home,from her son this year(1st gr). She is not in a good school district. Whenever she asked her son what he was doing , he said they watched a movie. The only thing they sent home was behavioral assessments, like how well they behaved that week. She called the teacher who told her he is doing much better than pretty much very other kid in class. I told her she needed to move or get her son out of the school before he gets so far behind he will never catch up. She put him in private school for this upcoming year.
So I'm pretty happy to get the papers. At least I know my kid isn't just being babysat.
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Post by auntkelly on Aug 12, 2014 14:25:16 GMT
I sure wish I would have thought to take pictures of my kids' artwork and other schoolwork when they were young. I saved a few papers and works of art over the years, but it sure would be fun to have several pieces from each year.
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Post by scrapqueen01 on Aug 12, 2014 18:09:11 GMT
I was wondering about this too. Dd goes to private school so they get workbooks for every subject. Her take home folder is usually full of papers from the work she did and stuff from the school itself. I didn't know if it was because of going to private school or if public school sent out lots of papers. One thing they do is upload students' artwork to a website called Artsonia so we don't actually get most of their artwork sent home. I've always wanted to go paperless but I guess I just have to settle for paper-less.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Aug 12, 2014 18:15:00 GMT
Yep. I take pictures now, too. Our middle school has an "art walk" at the end of the year where hundreds of pieces of art are tacked to the halls. Well, one year my daughter was in leadership club and their job was to take it all down and neatly stack it. They all split up. My daughter found out later the next day that some of the other teams (some typical mean girls) had thrown ALL the art away. Trashed it. The teacher verified that the trash had already been mixed with cafeteria garbage and was ruined. In that, of course, was artwork my son had done that I never got a picture of. I was sick to my stomach thinking of all those kids' art pieces trashed. That's terrible! It makes you wonder what goes through some children's minds when they do such crappy things. I'm sorry. |
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Aug 12, 2014 18:18:26 GMT
I was wondering about this too. Dd goes to private school so they get workbooks for every subject. Her take home folder is usually full of papers from the work she did and stuff from the school itself. I didn't know if it was because of going to private school or if public school sent out lots of papers. One thing they do is upload students' artwork to a website called Artsonia so we don't actually get most of their artwork sent home. I've always wanted to go paperless but I guess I just have to settle for paper-less. My kids used to go to a school that used Artsonia. I liked being able to go online and see what was there, but I was annoyed at the constant emails to buy photo gift things with their artwork on it. Mugs, mousepads, etc. A guilt trip every time I opened my inbox.  |
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Post by J u l e e on Aug 12, 2014 18:39:03 GMT
I keep envelopes addressed to the grandparents on the cabinet and divvy up artwork to go to them. They love getting kid artwork regularly, the kids love that I don't throw it away. This is such a cute idea! |
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Post by jeremysgirl on Aug 12, 2014 18:47:32 GMT
I actually miss those days. I have a 7th grader and a 9th grader and they hardly ever bring anything home. I have to go online and check their grades to keep up with what they are doing. It seems like nothing ever makes it back home.
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Post by scrapaddie on Aug 12, 2014 20:58:53 GMT
Way too much paper came home with my first grader last year. I love to see projects and tests and stuff, but when it's every little stray crayon mark on paper stuffed in her backpack, it makes me crazy. Also, the constant stream of notices, sign up forms, etc. Why ask for my email address and set up school websites if you're also going to send everything home on paper too. Because parents don't read the emails or look at the website. Or they say they tried but the Internet wasn't working or the website wasn't working etc. etc. etc. in other words, parents can have as many excuses as students have |
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If I were the teacher and I had to choose between listening to someone gripe about every piece of paper being sent home or a tantrum about "PROVE that my darling had a 50% (or whatever) average on classwork!!" then I'd probably pick the griping about all the paper-and how lazy the school staff was for not wanting to deal with disposing of the paper ( 
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