Doha - School Report Question and Answers
How is the overall communication between teachers and parents, and the administration and parents? How is communication facilitated?
Several avenues of communication including digital platforms Powerschool, Schoology, and weekly newsletter as well as parent-teacher conferences. Teachers, counselors, and administrators have had open communication and there was always an open door for communication. The school also reached out proactively when there was a concern about my child. - Sep 2023
Seems great, but it actually isn't transparent at all. There is a weekly newsletter that goes out, but, in my opinion, it isn't very user-friendly and it is sometimes hard to find the important stuff. Many parents don't read it regularly for this reason. The school restricts access to other parents' contact info, which inhibits open communication among parents with common concerns. The BoD hasn't held an open Board meeting in well over two years. They recently created an electronic comment box, but in my opinion, their responses are curt and don't provide any real answers to parents seeking explanations or dialogue. The PTA is run by a lot of stay-at-home moms, and while they devote many hours to the school and run different events quite well, it can also be the case that they exclude others who don't share their sentiments/opinions, so it ends up being a bit of a tough situation. The Arab Mothers have organized a group to kind of 'unionize' themselves and that works to give them greater voice in the community, and there is now a Black Family Heritage group, but there isn't much else out there to assist with communication from parents back to the school. There are three elected parent reps on the BOD (the other nine are appointed by the ambassador), but their contact info isn't shared so there isn't a way to reach out to them with concerns (as our rep) if you don't already know them personally). In general, this is one major issue at ASD: if you're well connected to those in positions of power, you can get stuff done and learn critical info, but if not, it can be a struggle as a parent to find things out. - Apr 2022
Adequate, primarily done online in a variety of ways including weekly newsletter. - Jul 2019
A - Aug 2011
