Ours doesn't get posted at all. Our students learn the last full day of school before they let out for the summer who they will have the following year. They even go to visit the new class & teacher. There's always the stipulation that it may change, and each year there are a few moved around for various reasons.

The school also puts a small note in with the mailed report card identifying the teacher. I guess that might be for the parents whose students don't tell or remember who they will have???

Like CrewChief, our PTO does a directory. The form is passed out at the beginning with all those other forms and we use that as our list of students and family information.

Like others here, our PTO does not post this information. It is posted by the schools at registration, 2 weeks before school starts.

Our PTO doesn't have anythig to do with class lists either but I guess we're the oddballs in this department. Our teachers mail out a perky little letter to the child about a month before school starts.

SHC

Ours meet at classroom from last year (previous grade) and then are sent to new classroom... No list, no muss, no fuss (although some friends do get a little upset when they're split up)

Our school district mails out in the middle of August who the students teacher will be. We dont't start school till September. The PTO has nothing to do with this. In our school you cannot request but you can list specific type of teacher that your child would have a good fit with.

As for the list being public at our open house you can sign up to have your child put on the list for birthday parties and that kind of thing.

Cindy

Wow, this is why I love these boards. I learn so much. I guess I take for granted the way we do things and it doesn't always occur to me that there are other ways.

All the schools my son has attended post the class lists for everyone to see - usually about a week before school starts. This way everyone knows who their teachers are without the school having the expense of mailing notices. The school assigns the class/teacher and the PTO has NOTHING to do with it. Our principal does not welcome requests without specific education based reasons.

The school directory is a PTO project. We list by class and every student's name is listed. All other info (address, phone, parent names) are listed only when we have a signed permission form. If a particular parent doesn't even want their child's name listed, perhaps for safety reasons, they notify us and it doesn't go into the directory.

I guess I'm curious how this causes problems. Once school starts, everyone knows who's in which class, what teacher they have and so on. I can understand sensitivity issues about students who are held back, assigned to remedial groups, etc, but within the first week of school everyone knows all of that anyway. The only real problem at our school is parents calling the principal to say either, "I will not have my child in class with that child!" or "I didn't request but I really don't want my child to have that teacher because..." He has a standard "once class lists are posted, nothing changes" policy but has been known to alter it from time to time.