Our school has been using the 'Parent-mail' system since last year and it all started out well and good with us receiving the end of week newsletter and the odd reminder or notice of something extra happening at school in the near future etc.
However nowadays, and with increasing regularity, emails are being sent out from teachers during the evening/night (i.e. 9pm+) for extra things required (or even extra homework being set last minute) for the following school day. Sometimes we get them during the weekends too. Not all of the parents have (or want!) regular access to these emails and.......shock horror.......some parents have already gone to bed or are even working at the time but the school doesn't seem to realise this and those children whose parents aren't in the loop are turning up without the required contributions/pieces of work/items.
AIBU to think that the kids, parents & teachers should be allowed to have a 'shut off and decompress' amount of time each day to themselves? If only for sanity's sake?
Another thing that the school has also started is the use of 'Google Classroom' to set & submit homework. However we're not thrilled about the children publicly messaging each-other on their main classroom page where sometimes it's got a bit too competitive & nasty and the teacher has even had to step in (online!) to calm it all down! A couple of the other mums have said that they're still going in to ask for a paper copy of the homework each time because they haven't got laptops or desktop computers at home and apparently they've been questioned as to why they don't have the required technology before being reluctantly handed a print-out!
Anyone else experiencing a similar situation with their kids schools? 