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Thanks....
By Jan

...your comments gave me a lift I needed.
My parents never complained - and I did this for years. One reason might be this: I give each child a steno book - like a secretary's steno book. Each day, at the end of the
day, the children would write what they learned or did that day in school. We worked up to good paragraphs because it started out as rambling "Today we played a game in math. The teacher read us a story and we made a book..." like that - no details. So we worked up to some good writing - the parents loved it because they felt like they knew what their child did that day. The parents

were to sign or initial it each night. I communicated to parents on that page also, either with personal notes, or little notes I duplicated and taped in each child's steno. The first year, I bought the stenos myself at a place like Office Depot - they were hard to find at Wal-Mart, etc. But I noticed our warehouse carried them(where teachers can order stuff with school money) so I didn't have to use my own money after that. I still sent work home almost daily, but it might be stamped "completed together in class" or the like. Think about how little participation most parents show - they don't miss the papers, believe me!