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[quote=Anonymous]I agree that letter grades are not informative.  A few years ago, my kids went to a private school where the report cards were narratives -- very detailed, personalized accounts of my kids' strengths and weaknesses.  They were very helpful and also made me feel that the teachers REALLY knew my child.

The letter grades are so random.  For example, my youngest daughter is an amazing reader -- reads hundreds of pages a day for pleasure and reads five grade levels ahead.  Yet her reading grade was a B.  Now, someone who didn't know her would assume she was just average in reading.  Of course, I was puzzled about this and when I asked the teacher, she said it was because she did not complete her reading log.  (They are required to write down all of the books they read, with pages numbers, etc.)  And apparently the completion of the reading log -- not their actual reading effort or reading ability -- was the sole basis of the reading grade.

So this new system may be no better...but to those who defend the random letter grades and think they actually are meaningful, I encourage you to probe further to see what the grades are based upon.[/quote]

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