When should you send a letter home to parents?

Educator and author Michael Linsin recommends sending a letter home to parents only as a third consequence of inappropriate behavior in a single say. He also cautions teachers to strive to send no more than six or eight letters to parents per school year.

Letters home to parents should be given to the child to pass on to parents personally. Parents sign the letter to indicate that they read it, and then return it to the child to give to the issuing teacher. If the student does not return the signed letter the next day, the teacher should follow up with a phone call home.