Why not? If the parents over-react it's a problem with the parent that should be addressed.
I'd agree if it was about student's private life but as long as it's about classes - why should anything be hidden?
I'd agree if it was about student's private life but as long as it's about classes - why should anything be hidden?
Parents protecting their child is a good thing, but only to a point. A child needs to learn how to live without protection from parents. How to interact with a boss (a teacher plays similar role in a school), how to do what a boss have asked, how to ask a boss for a favor, how to learn rules of a new boss and to adapt to them?
How a person supposedly could learn all of it, if every time when happened something that is not convenient for a child, parents would interfere, come to talk with a teacher, and insist on changing her rules on behalf of their child?
This efforts is a good thing against parental anxiety. When parents did something they might feel that they fulfilled their role of parents and stop there. When they got information for free, they didn't do anything yet as a parents, they may feel obliged to do something. There is a good chance that they would be unable to find a constructive thing they could do, so they might do a random thing.
Yes, the level of monitoring is a tricky issue.
If I had reports of "toilet in class time", and it suddenly increased one month, then I could investigate why - bullying, UTI, boredom? Which helps me to care for my child.
Now, the likelihood is that I'll notice these things earlier than that, but as children grow they usually become experts at hiding things, like being bullied. As parents aren't in school, and teachers can't see everything, and it's not always possible to have a chat with the teacher, then some monitoring can be useful to aid parenting.
For example, we get an absence record each month, that's useful monitoring that infringes on a child's independence. But it's also vital data for safety, and to ensure a child is getting educated. If my older kid missed an afternoon without my permission, that's no biggy (we all have bad days), but if they miss time often then there are problems; if a younger kid is out of school by themselves that might be a serious safety issue.
This means these parent should be educated about the proper way to educate children. They should be taught to choose wisely when to impose consequences and what kind of consequences that should be.