Wow, would my life have been miserable if this software had been around when I was in high school

ON school days at 2 p.m., Nicole Dobbins walks into her home office in Alpharetta, Ga., logs on to ParentConnect, and reads updated reports on her three children. Then she rushes up the block to meet the fourth and sixth graders’ buses.

But in the thump and tumble of backpacks and the gobbling of snacks, Mrs. Dobbins refrains from the traditional after-school interrogation: Did you cut math class? What did you get on your language arts test?

Thanks to ParentConnect, she already knows the answers. And her children know she knows. So she cuts to the chase: “Tell me about this grade,” she will say.

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I was not what one would call a motivated student in high school and around report card time life wasn't pleasant in my house. I can just imagine what it would have been like if my parents had been checking grades everyday.

Ironically a friend of mine's kid has the same lack of interest in school that I did and I recommended using they use this type of program combined with making him do a chapter a day in every class whether he "had homework" or not. The theory being make not doing homework more miserable than just getting it done.

Hypocrisy they name is Chad.

Unfortunately that plan fell thru when one of the teachers told them to stop because he was getting to far ahead of the rest of the class, but I think it was working up to that point.