Similar to Williamson County’s ParentConnection, Maury County has online access to students’ info called “Parent Portal”.
Parent Portal provides access to your child’s attendance, schedule, grades, and discipline. The grades portion refers to end of the term grades; however, in the schedule section, you can click on “assignments” to see day-to-day grades. I’m certain the assignments section will have some lag time depending on the teacher’s workload and how quickly they can enter grades into the computer.
Parent Portal even goes one step further than ParentConnection and gives parents access to a student’s disciplinary info. Why shouldn’t parents know about their child’s discipline problems?
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I think these programs are just great. We don’t have our own kids yet, but if we did, I would certainly be checking my child’s info on a regular basis. In the past, parents and teachers seemed to have a closer relationship, making it difficult for students to get off track; nowadays, it’s hard to imagine a teacher calling home to chit-chat with parents, leaving parents in the dark.
Along with Parent Portal and ParentConnection, I would like to see a social networking type interface so that parents and teachers can stay in touch. In fact, it would be easy to set-up facebook groups for each class. Perhaps, as time passes, the very technology that isolated us from each other will bring us back together in online, and then offline, communities.
In order to get access to Parent Portal, you must contact the school to get a username and password. Then, to get on the site, go to http://www.mauryk12.org/ where you’ll see “Parent Portal” in red letters in about the middle of the page.
For more instructions, go to http://www.mauryk12.org/parent%20portal%20letter.pdf
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