Collaborating with Parents; Prompt 5

Seeing the teacher in my SL classroom handling the variety of students in the room makes me wonder how she handles dealing with the parents of these students. In a discussion with her, she told me that most of the parents of her students do not speak English well and communicating is tough sometimes. When talking about one of the students I tutor, my teacher told me that the only way to communicate with the parents of this student was to send a letter home with a sibling and the sibling would translate the note to the parents. It is unfortunate that this is the only working system of communication between the teacher and the student's parents because the note could easily be misinterpreted, misunderstood or could not even be read to the parents. It is sad that even in modern times teachers cannot have basic communication with the parents of their students due to language barrier.
When I am a teacher one day, I hope that I will be able to have efficient communications with the parents of my students. One method of communication I can think of now that I would like to utilise one day is email. I feel that actually seeing the message from the teacher may make more of an impact on the parents. Also, parents who do not speak English could easily copy and paste the email into an online translator in order to see the message in their own language. Although an email may sometimes seem impersonal, I still feel that it can definitely be an effective means of communication between teacher and parent. Other issues besides language barriers that I may face when trying to communicate with parents is that parents may do nothing to fix a possible problem I could point out with their child. For instance, I may alert parents of a problem with their child in the classroom that should be dealt with at home and the parents may not take any action. If I were to encounter such a problem, I would send home another note about the issue but making sure there is high imortance on the issue.
This prompt actuallly fit perfectly with an experience I had in my SL classroom. One of the students I tutor has some behavorial problems. Each week the teacher would threaten to send a note home and each following week I would not see an improvement in the student's behavior. I feel uncomfortable asking my teacher why this student's behavior has not improved because I dont want her to think I am criticizing her methods of communication! But, I wonder if a note was ever sent home in the first place...