to write a load of nonsense in my sons reading diary to see if teacher actually reads my comments?

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Son has reading diary where i have to write a comment about how they found homework, whether they know the flashcard words etc.., numerous times i have asked a question or left a comment requiring an answer and it just goes unanswered which really bugs me as the whole point of it is a communication diary between parents and teachers.

My questions aren't stupid ones like why isnt Johnny in the top set? they are actual genuine concerns like i have noticed he has been writing a lot of letters and numbers backwards but there is never any reply, so i am tempted to write some form of nonsense to see if they actually are reading the comments.

Has anyone any ideas what i could write?

I was v surprised to find a comment from the teacher in ds's reading diary today - "Very distracted today" with a smiley face and a sticker.

I truly didn't think they read them. I was way more startled by the fact there was a comment than the behaviour notification. Also that you get a superstar sticker for being distracted.

YANBU-if they're not going to be used they should just get rid of them.Utter pointless exercise which teaches kids to ignore procedures set up by school.

Last year my dd had 4 comments the entire year,I gave up by March.My last comment was "can we have some feed back re LittlePrairie's reading".

It never got answered.

I have had some useful comments and observations written about my son by his teacher in his reading diary. We were told as parents to write things in the diary that we feel need flagging up wrt his reading. However, if I had your concern, I don't think a homework diary would be the place and would make a separate meeting to see the teacher.

Why write about the difficulties he is having with letters in a diary about reading???

But these are set up as a communication link-ours certainly were.If it's only one sided they are pointless.What are you supposed to write in them,I'd love to know?

What annoys me is schools set them up so they can tick the box re working with parents,setting up communication links etc but don't actually do what they say they do.If they don't want to use them fine I have no issue with that but own up to it,get rid of them and set up some other line of communication for working/busy parents who are never at the school gate.

I think it is perfectly reasonable to expect the teacher to read them in cases where the teacher complains when you don't write them. It is a two-way process and some teachers do have a way of treating parents like recalcitrant 5yos if they don't perform their part of the deal. Works both ways. If the teacher cuts the parent a bit of slack, then fair enough.

But never make silly comments- always stay in the right.

It is a two-way process and some teachers do have a way of treating parents like recalcitrant 5yos if they don't perform their part of the deal.
DiL just got a gold star from her DDs teacher for helping her child reach her target of reading X times a week at home. The previous week's comment was "Nearly there." As the child is 5 it is pretty obvious that it is Mummy who fails/succeeds at meeting the target, and it is easy to find this a bit irritating.

YANBU

When DD2 was in reception, I remember filling in the books for weeks and nothing was ever acknowledged, just an initial to indicate someone had seen it would be nice

After it being ignored for the whole of the first term I wrote a polite enquiry in there as to whether there was any point in writing in the book and stopped filling it in.

It took another term for the teacher to notice it, and then she called me in to ball me out for writing snotty notes and for not filling in the book

A) it wasn't snotty, I'd been very polite in my wording and B) she proved my point