Contacting Parents

I haven't had any bad experiences with contacting parents. This always works well for me when I do have to contact a parent. Our school have us contacting parents more now about attendance, everytime time a kid miss three days we MUST contact the parent and our AP. This systme has worked really well but I must admitt is very time consuming. We have over 1800 kids in our building but only about 20 teachers on the Attendance committee, along with some parent volunteers. Parents are now checking smartweb online more and keeping track of the number of days missed by students. As a matter of fact I have had a couple of parents email wanting to know the dates there kids had missed class because smartweb shows the number of days absent from each class and tardies. It is really amazing at the responses you get, many paretns are unaware that the kids are not in school. So that let us kow that many are skipping classes. We are really cracking down on attendance so that it is fair to kids who are in class daily when it comes to grading.