Why don’t some schools have counsellors who can give students advice based on their grades so that parents don’t need to see report cards and possibly suffer mental health issues as a result?
Because schools should not hiding information from parents. I'm a father of 3 and would not accept my children's grades being hidden from me.
Our school district uses a web app called Aspen, through which parents can see their kids' grades in real time (as teachers grade things), not just when report cards are published. It's good not to overreact to each data point.
Grades are a measure of understanding VS expectations. If my kid is struggling with a topic, then I can hire tutors, or just sit with them and work through things.
You can't fix what you can't measure.
Teaching kids is the schools job, but it's my job too. I'd argue it's more my job than their job. I'm the CEO of my kids education. If they are falling it's on me to help them.
If I don't know there's a problem, how can I help.
I never understood this point of view, teachers are just people doing a regular job, just like basically everyone else. Assuming that teachers should have the same level of engagement as a good parent is just ignorant, very few teachers are like that. Most don't care more about your kids future than technical support cares about your struggles with their product. You can't expect technical support to solve your problem, it is better to learn to solve them yourself, and even if you don't do everything yourself the more engaged you are the easier it will be for the technical support to help you.
The school does not help kids. Most of the teachers are not able to present concepts even to people who know those concepts, let alone children.
Hiding grades is bad because the parents cannot help the child to improve and the school does not care.
Parents would send their kids to schools that hide things from them only when the schools that don’t are at capacity and stop accepting further enrollments.
Schools that hide things from parents would likely be a magnet for incompetent and lazy educators.
If grades are causing mental health issues or other problems, that is definitely a problem. And it is counselors job to help out giving advice on academic progress as well as healthy functioning in schools. But those two don't connect to the point that parents should be excluded from their children's education. Public school is a service available to parents, not a replacement for parenting.
Phrasing any broad question as "why dont" makes no sense. Who are you asking the question to? Its a subjective question so the why depends on the answerer.
If the child struggles in school, this will make a parent wonder about their own intelligence and the intelligence of their spouse. It would be depressing in that regard.
This does not sound like a problem with the school or the student. It sounds like the parents need their own help. Being a parent is hard. And does make you wonder, and make you question your mistakes. It is a really rough job. But trying to pass parenting obligations on to other people is not the answer. If you are struggling this much, seek out help for yourself.
To me this is a description of a caring and responsible parent not a mental health issue. The world will never be full of just joy. Humans need to learn to cope and adapt.
Our school district uses a web app called Aspen, through which parents can see their kids' grades in real time (as teachers grade things), not just when report cards are published. It's good not to overreact to each data point.