What is the point of elementary report cards

[Anonymous]

Standards based grading does tell you how your kid is doing. Stop being a jerk. It just splits up the subject into individual skills so you can know if there was a specific skill your child did better or worse in.
How complainers can keep whining about how they tell you nothing is just ridiculous. You know what tells you nothing about a first grader? A subjective and randomly given “A”.

At least you can look at the standards based report card, if you bother to read it, and see hey my kid can do addition with regrouping to grade level expectations but they are still struggling in subtraction without regrouping. Or whatever.

But keep complaining about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Standards based grading does tell you how your kid is doing. Stop being a jerk. It just splits up the subject into individual skills so you can know if there was a specific skill your child did better or worse in.
How complainers can keep whining about how they tell you nothing is just ridiculous. You know what tells you nothing about a first grader? A subjective and randomly given “A”.

At least you can look at the standards based report card, if you bother to read it, and see hey my kid can do addition with regrouping to grade level expectations but they are still struggling in subtraction without regrouping. Or whatever.

But keep complaining about it.

True, it is very specific by standard. But an “M” is pretty general — it could mean 70 or anything up to 100.

[Anonymous]

You’re trying to convert SBG to the traditional scale and that’s your issue. It doesn’t correlate exactly. Know that an M means your child is consistently meeting the grade level expectation for that skill, independently. It meets or exceeds the minimum amount of consistent performance of that skill. That is enough. You can quantify it when you get to middle school and beyond.

If your child is getting all “M”s just tell them you are proud of them and know they are fine. And then go read a book together or something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You’re trying to convert SBG to the traditional scale and that’s your issue. It doesn’t correlate exactly. Know that an M means your child is consistently meeting the grade level expectation for that skill, independently. It meets or exceeds the minimum amount of consistent performance of that skill. That is enough. You can quantify it when you get to middle school and beyond.

If your child is getting all “M”s just tell them you are proud of them and know they are fine. And then go read a book together or something.

It is quantifiable - we use 70% as the “M” cutoff in APS.