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Explanation: You will be given a booklet called the 'carnet de liaison'. You should have this document, which is often called simply the 'carnet', in your bag at all times. You should fill in your name and other details in the front, and copy your timetable down on the special page provided. This book is used for many things, including recording your marks for your parents to see. It contains a copy of the school rules, which you should read with your parents. Its special purpose is to allow the school to communicate with your parents. Teachers may write notes in it, and you may be asked to copy messages into it about meetings or special events. It is very important that your parents read and sign all messages sent home from school. They can't do this unless you remember to tell them that there is a message, and give them the 'carnet' to read. They must sign each message: if they do not, you may get into trouble for not showing them the 'carnet’. This booklet can also be used by your parents to write messages to individual teachers. In this case it is your job to remember to show the message to the teacher. If you are absent from school, there are special pages in the 'carnet' for your parents to sign and fill in, so that the school has a record of the cause of your absence. You must bring your 'carnet' to school every day, and keep it in your school bag at all times. Make sure you read the school rules (réglement intérieur') in the 'carnet' at the beginning of the year. If your French is not good enough to read them, ask a friend who reads French well to translate or to read them with you.
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(sorry, I forgot to give the link)enpferney.org/Secondary/NewPupilsHandbook.htm - 48k
(school) correspondence book is perhaps better
it's not a report card, the profs use it to send notes to the parents. I do not recall seeing the same thing in the US.
21:37 Apr 26, 2005
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report book
Explanation: You will be given a booklet called the 'carnet de liaison'. You should have this document, which is often called simply the 'carnet', in your bag at all times. You should fill in your name and other details in the front, and copy your timetable down on the special page provided. This book is used for many things, including recording your marks for your parents to see. It contains a copy of the school rules, which you should read with your parents. Its special purpose is to allow the school to communicate with your parents. Teachers may write notes in it, and you may be asked to copy messages into it about meetings or special events. It is very important that your parents read and sign all messages sent home from school. They can't do this unless you remember to tell them that there is a message, and give them the 'carnet' to read. They must sign each message: if they do not, you may get into trouble for not showing them the 'carnet’. This booklet can also be used by your parents to write messages to individual teachers. In this case it is your job to remember to show the message to the teacher. If you are absent from school, there are special pages in the 'carnet' for your parents to sign and fill in, so that the school has a record of the cause of your absence. You must bring your 'carnet' to school every day, and keep it in your school bag at all times. Make sure you read the school rules (réglement intérieur') in the 'carnet' at the beginning of the year. If your French is not good enough to read them, ask a friend who reads French well to translate or to read them with you.
-------------------------------------------------- Note added at 7 mins (2005-04-26 21:13:50 GMT) --------------------------------------------------
(sorry, I forgot to give the link)enpferney.org/Secondary/NewPupilsHandbook.htm - 48k
(school) correspondence book is perhaps better
suezen Local time: 09:36 Specializes in field Native speaker of: English PRO pts in category: 234
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merci encore, suezen!
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Home-school book
Explanation: I have used these in the UK where I was a teacher and they went by the above name which is a little clumsey maybe but there you are. It was used to increase communication between the parents and teachers.
xxxDaran Local time: 09:36 Specializes in field Native speaker of: English PRO pts in category: 4
The translation workplace 
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