Between 50 percent and 70 percent of the families in the district use the service, Crook reported. More and more teachers are posting student grades to class Web pages. It's a growing trend, made easy by software packages and special online communities. More and more homes are joining the online revolution too, providing parents with easy access to student grades. Posting grades online helps parents keep in touch with how their kids are doing.
Schools improve as well.
Teachers love it. Martha Crook is also the parent of two teens in Park City. But from a standpoint of their being responsible, both of them check their own grades on a regular basis, so it's a real accountability thing for them too, and I'm really pleased with that, that I'm not going in and being the heavy all the time. One of the controversies over education on the Net is that it may not be available to parents who do not have computers. Park City is addressing those concerns in a number of ways.