5/8/2008 8:26:00 AM
Daily Telegraph 8 May
Schools should post children’s progress reports online to help overcome a decline in the popularity of the traditional parents’ evening, the Schools Secretary has said. Ed Balls claimed most parents now prefer to have informal discussions with teachers in the playground or check online for their child’s results and record of attendance. Mr Balls insisted that the evening meetings, where reports are given out, would continue, but said schools should also keep parents updated more regularly and in more innovative ways. He said: “We’re not saying that parents’ evenings are a bad thing. But parents want information in a way which is accessible to them in addition to the standard termly parents’ evening. Because of the internet and mobile phones people think if they can get updated on football scores, why can’t they get information like that from their schools. “Parents tell us they like having informal contact with their child’s school, whether that’s a chat in the playground or the chance to go online and see their teenager’s latest marks and make sure they are going to all their classes.” He added: “It is in everyone’s interests for parents to be in the know when things start going wrong rather than being given a bad report card out of the blue at a termly parents’ evening.” DT
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