Mackenzie Click-Mickelson
Chugging along the path of life
- Joined
- Oct 23, 2015
Ours were given for every student though I think it was more or less teacher specific rather than an official report from the school themselves (with the actual report card sent after each semester was official from the school and it was mailed rather than given to the student).
I do believe they encouraged the teachers to do the progress reports and many of my teachers that I had in school as a norm required parental signatures. I think the premise really was so that parents were aware of their kids progress (hence the term progress reports) whether good or bad so you know involvement in their child's schooling.
I remember one time in 8th grade my mom got on me for my progress report because it had a 0 for a homework assignment. I had just forgotten to do it and it was well past even the late turn in date. But I pointed out to her that I had a 125% in the class anyways because I had opted to do so much extra credit. That was the tricky part about progress reports in my schooling because it would generally show assignments with the grade so it wasn't like you could 'hide' that one piece of homework you forgot to turn in. Not all progress reports were so detailed but I would say they generally were or at the very least they were broken up with homework, tests, extra credit, etc.
I'm thinking that's probably how things are nowadays and they probably are way different than mine were. That seems to be the way of it with all the electronic things. You used to call into the phone line or wait until the local news had the school listed on the bottom scroll for inclement weather days and I feel like nowadays you get a text, it's on facebook, you're e-mailed, etc lol.
I found with college that the student portals where professors would input your grades was hit or miss--likely more hit than miss but still. It was something that sometimes you'd catch that a teacher hadn't input a grade for something that had long since been over and normally it was that they had graded it but forgot to input it into the website.
