Sounds like you are speaking from a specific experience and I’m not sure I can answer your question without more information.

In my experience:

1) although my husband and I are together, the school personnel typically directs personal correspondence to me as I am the parent that most often appears at the school to volunteer, attend meetings, and signs the notes we send back in to the school

2) the school sends home one ‘packet’ of information for each student and expects that whatever ‘internal’ communication that needs to happen between parents (whether living together or separate) will happen

As long as there is no court order to the contrary, both parents have an equal right to information from the school and to participate in their child’s education. If you are not receiving the information from your child’s other parent, then make an appointment with the teacher and brainstorm how he/she can get the information to you. This may involve some work/effort on your part, but the teacher should be so grateful that you want to be involved that they are willing to do their part too. Some possible suggestions:

* the teacher keeps a manilla envelope with your name on it and deposits all the regular notes/announcements in it that are sent home during the week – you pick the packet up at the school on Friday(leaving the envelope for the next week). If picking it up is not possible, go ahead and prestamp a stack of envelopes for teacher to use to mail them to you once a week.

* if the teacher communicates via email, ask to be added to the email list

* ask the principal to add your number to the phone message list – that way you’ll get those telephone messages about special events and PTA meetings

* make sure the teacher has your phone number and knows to call you too – anytime she’s calling all the other parents

* if you’re not getting respect from the teacher, talk to the principal

*if you’re not getting respect from the principal, call the county office and ask to speak with the person who supervises the principals – that’s usually pretty effective

good luck

By law, the parent with primary custody has the say in legal matters unless the school is informed otherwise. Now parents with joint custody have equal rights..both can be given report cards, access to records, equal rights to attend teacher conferences or any other sort of placement and assesment meetings, but the school must be told this and given the correct contact information to follow up on it. However, in cases of other than joint custody, the non-custodial parent can only be told or recieve information if the custodial parent requests this and signs thier approval. It can be tough, but this is the only way schools can protect both themselve and thier students in cases where the non-custodial parent has lost privelages for very valid reasons..abuse, drugs, attempts to take the child. The best thing parents can do when they split is to be sure what information the school can and can not share with non-custodial parents is in the custody agreement and to provide the school with a copy to keep in the student’s files. Both parents should be sure to send in notes, along with another copy of the custody agreement, to each classroom teacher. It can take time for information to filter from the office to the class, especially at the beginning of the year. By informing both the school and the teacher, everyone will know from the get go what can and can not be shared and with whom.

I’m not quite sure what you mean.

As a teacher, I can tell you that my students’ files aren’t flagged with terms like “divorce,” or “two-family households.” If I call a parent, I call the number listed first. It depends on whatever the parent put down. Parents usually leave cell numbers, so it’s common to have different #s for mom and dad.

If you feel out of the loop, I would contact your child’s teachers at the start of the year, and tell them your situation. It’s not uncommon for me to email both parents with updates, or hold two separate conferences… although I find it best when the parents can find a way to work together as a team in the child’s best interest.

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Schools don’t favor them based on income. Depending on who the primary or custodial parent is when the divorce is finalized, that’s who the school is legally bound to communicate first with. The non-custodial parent can make arrangements with the school to have grades, notices, etc. sent to them. And that depends to on if the non-custodial parent doesn’t have any type of court order limiting their contact with the children. My ex receives the same information from the school that I do regarding our son.

The secondary parent does not have the authority of the actual parent. the school is acting “in loco parentis” and its next ultimate authority is the parent, not the step- or “secondary” parent.

It isn’t a matter of being unfair, it’s the law. Absent any legal permission granting authority to the stepparent, it isn’t there and can’t be granted by the school.