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[quote=Anonymous]In elementary grades matter only insofar as they tell you whether your kid is on grade level or not (learning what they are supposed to based on curriculum standards so they are ready for the next year's material on time) and also to see if your child is making steady progress. An individual grade is just a snapshot but if you look at grades over time you will see patterns that are useful in terms of telling you if your kid is learning.

But elementary grades don't matter for the future (no one cares if you got an A or a B in 3rd grade math -- literally forever no one will ever care about that.

The majority of elementary schools have grading scales and methods that reflect this. They don't give As and Bs they give grades that mean below or on or above grade level and usually the grading rubric requires teachers to explain what deficits a child below grade level needs to work on to come up to grade level.

Our school also does assessments at beginning-middle-end of year and these can be directly compared to see learning growth over the school year. And then on top of this we get iReady and DIBELS scores that allow us to see how our kids are doing as compared to all kids in the state or country. I find the assessments much more useful than report card grades.[/quote]

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