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It’s important to be involved in your child’s education
and to keep up with their progress at school. Hayward School
District is using technology to make keeping up easier than ever.
Hayward has been using an online service called Edline, linked
through school websites, which parents can use to check their
child’s grades, activities, attendance and discipline records,
as well as check out lunch balances and menus. Parents can even
email teachers directly.
About 40-50% of parents are using the service. “The parents
who use it really love it,” says Andy Eaton, Director of
Information and Technology for the Hayward School District. “It
has become part of their daily routine.” “This is
not set up to replace parent/teacher conferences,” he says, “but
it does give parents 24 hour a day/7 day a week access so they
can check their student’s progress at their leisure and
communicate with the teacher directly but fit it into their schedules.”
With informal survey data indicating that 75% of students have
Internet access at home, the Hayward School District knows that
technology plays an important role in its students’ lives – and
the lives of their parents. So, they are hosting evening sessions
for parents to learn how to use the system, which is web-based
so parents can access it from any computer – at work, home
or through public libraries.
Here are websites for schools in the area. Check them out:
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