Edline in the Washington Post
Earlier this week, the Washington Post published an article about Edline, an online site that allows parents to keep tabs on their children’s grades, attendance and other classroom activities. Both Hesperia High School and Sultana High School have Edline sites set up.
At the beginning of this semester, Laura Iriarte Miguel switched anatomy classes.
No big deal. Students at Quince Orchard High School in Gaithersburg can shift courses around at the start of each term. But when Iriarte Miguel remained on the roll in the wrong class for several days, her parents began receiving notices from Edline — an online, up-to-the-sec grade-tracking program used in Montgomery County middle and high schools — about her unexcused absences and zeros on quizzes.
Montgomery County high school senior Laura Iriarte Miguel is no fan of Edline, which records her grades and attendance in every subject.
Finally, one night at dinner, in between bites of spaghetti, her parents grilled her about her truancy and her rotten anatomy grades. She hadn’t told them she had opted into another class.
“They wanted to know why-why-why-why,” Iriarte Miguel says. She set them straight, but the air was still poisoned. The suspicion, she says, “accumulated in the back of their minds during the whole day.”
This could be a simple story of parental expectations and teenage lackadaisicalness. But it’s also a tale of an innovation at the nexus of a morphing world — symbolic of the changing nature of childhood, America’s abiding faith in education and the unforgiving quality of technology
If I wasn’t insanely busy this week — seriously, a week where the paper has to be done early, and where we have a lower-than-average page count is shaping up to be one of my busiest in my entire time here — I’d probably localize this story for Hesperia.
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