<p>I've read a few times on this board about how wonderful (or terrible) a certain recommendation was for your child. My question is...how are you able to read them? Our school has a strict policy prohibiting students from seeing them. I'm sure teachers may sometimes give a copy to the students, but I haven't once heard of this happening (and certainly not for a bad rec)!</p>
<p>So, just curious!</p>
<p>Our GCs and teachers do not show kids the recs but this is not the case at all schools. There are many teachers that do share recs with students and/or parents. I believe that if a teacher at our school felt they could not write a positive rec, they would decline rather than submit something negative.</p>
<p>readytoroll, son’s school is the same as yours. they dont get to see the lor. it is driving son crazy right now as he has a sealed lor that he has to submit with a package on monday…sitting right there in front of him for a really important app and he has no idea what it says (although he is pretty sure it is a good one) LOL.</p>
<p>At our school, the teacher gives the rec to the student. The student then brings the rec to the guidance counselor. Everything is packaged and goes out together.</p>
<p>At our HS it is at the discretion of the teacher. We have seen some, not seen others. I also think that if the teacher usually lets students see them, they don’t write recs for a student if it will be bad. But some of the english teachers seem to be able to put a spin on it.</p>
<p>D’s teacher gave D a copy of the rec that she had to send directly to D’s college.
It was a very nice rec! I don’t think the school has a set policy. It is whatever the teacher wants to do.</p>
<p>warriorboy, are you serious? I can’t believe that! (not doubting you, just… wow). </p>
<p>S’07 checked the “I waive my right to ever see this” box on his recs. His teachers dropped them off at Guidance. After S filled out his section of the form and gave them to his teachers & GC, he never saw them again. Guidance fills the envelope and mails them.</p>
<p>I didn’t expect D’10 to see her recs either. But one teacher invited D to read it over and see if she had covered everything! Of course this was a teacher who doesn’t write many recs because she’s a health teacher, but she’s also the Class Advisor and D has been a class officer for 4 years so they’ve worked closely together for a long time. The teacher wrote the rec from the perspective of an advisor although she did have D as a student for 1 semester and mentioned that. D and I have no expectation that she will see the GC rec or her other teacher’s rec.</p>
<p>Lafalum…didn’t your school request academic teachers only? My S also wanted to use the student government advisor, but he doesn’t teach an academic subject so it was a no go.</p>
<p>Actually most of D’s school only request/require one teacher rec. Some only require the GC rec and any additional recs from teachers are optional. D’s getting 2 recs, the other rec is from her history teacher. If the colleges don’t want to read/consider the advisor/health teacher rec, they don’t have to.</p>
<p>IMHO, Health is an academic subject, just not a core academic, and D had this teacher as a classroom teacher for one semester. If D had never been in her class, she wouldn’t have asked her to write it. The other Class advisor teaches a different foreign language than D took, so she was off the list. Also, D wouldn’t have asked her varsity coach for a rec, because the coach doesn’t teach at the school.</p>
<p>all of our teachers give them to us, and let us proof them.
Then, we give them to guidance to handle</p>