Since its implementation at the beginning of the school year, Zangle has received applause from parents, overjoyed that they are now able to check their child’s grade at any time, any place.

And the students?

Well, let’s just say that until recently, some of us have been perfecting the art of hiding our report cards underneath our beds.

But ever since Zangle became the hottest thing since Facebook, we face our parents’ constant disapproval over our less-than-perfect grades.

We’re not talking about a few times each semester when grade reports hit the mail; we’re talking about all the time.

For most of our lives, we have been managing our grades without the interference of parents.

Suddenly, parents have complete access to our academic records, down to that silly English assignment worth a mere five points.

Between sports, clubs and other school activities, homework can be a burden. Some nights we simply don’t have the time to finish that five-point English assignment.

Of course, our parents remain entirely oblivious to our aversion to Zangle.

They’re parents, and to them, high school seems eons away.

In their minds, missing that fivepoint assignment is a big deal. Before this year, they had no method of scouting out that lone zero.

Now, thanks to Zangle, we as students have to take the time to explain to our parents what happened to that missing assignment and risk some serious consequences.

Ridiculously enough, parents still feel the need to monitor our work.

When we go to college, it’s not like they’re going to follow us to our dorms and make sure we finish every single assignment.

We’re in high school now; we’re old enough to do our homework and study for tests by ourselves.

Zangle enables parents to hover over us as if we’re preschoolers.

High school is a period of individual growth and learning, not constant parent interference.

As we grow up, we must learn how to operate independently of our parents. This will never happen when Zangle incessantly reminds parents to supervise our academic record.

There comes a point in a teenager’s life when enough is enough. Zangle overreaches our personal limits by allowing parents to shadow us as we complete high school.

While we understand that parents have a right to be concerned about failing grades, it’s disheartening to know that we’re under chronic surveillance because of Zangle.

At some point, parents need to trust us when we say that we’re doing well in school.

Parents, teachers, and administrators may enjoy the benefits of Zangle, but we students remain skeptical on its purpose. A better way to survey our academics must exist.

What that is exactly, we do not know. Still, at this point in the school year, anything sounds better than Zangle.