Imagine this: you’re sitting in your room, doing homework or texting your friend, when one of your parents come up to you and ask you about a missing homework or an F on a four point quiz. How did they learn about that? The only answer can be Edline.

Edline is a system where teachers input students’ grades before report cards or progress reports so students can easily check them. At first glance, this seems like a great idea. Students can see their grades and improve them before report cards go out to parents. But it seems that a lot of the time,the cons of Edline out way the positive aspects .

Around this time of year, schedules get busy, and teachers try to get in as much as they can before winter break. The amount of essays and projects piling up seem daunting, and worksheets or other little assignments slip the mind sometimes. However, parents know very well that all the little homeworks will eventually add up, and confrontations will occur. It’s true that parents are only looking out for their children and are trying to help them out in the long run, but adding stress on top of stress will do nothing but aggravate everyone.

The format of Edline is scary, to say the least. Clicking on a private report for a certain class brings you to a page with lots of assignments, and it’s hard to imagine that you’ve accomplished that much in a span of, let’s say, two weeks. The text is small, and in a font that is not as easy to read as Times New Roman. The difficulty of reading what is on the Edline report also makes it hard to find your term grade so far, progress report grade, or whatever grade you may be looking for at that moment in time.

Amid the confusion, it is easy to notice the “F” in the middle of the report, and all the brakes screech to a halt. Immediately thoughts of the last test you took enter your brain, and you stare long and hard at the report, until you (hopefully) sigh with relief. It wasn’t a major project or test, and it wasn’t even a 50 point quiz;  it was a four point pop quiz, or a missing five point homework. Edline is the leading cause of potential heart attacks at high schools, and many parents don’t understand that an F on a small quiz is a lot different than an F on a large test or project. So after they obsessively read your Edline report that came out two hours beforehand, it is always possible they will demand to know what has happened, or why your grade dipped from an A- to a B+. If Edline was limited to just the students, it would be used as a tool to improve grades, instead of a weapon

Overall, Edline can be useful, it utilized correctly. Over-obsessive parents can destroy the benefits that Edline brings to SHS, as well as its hindering format of the reports it sends out. Edline can demolish a student’s life and focus just with a click of a button.