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[quote=Anonymous]This is one of those things I really hated (and my kids came to hate) about the standards based grading system. If this is really a district decision - which I'd question if I were you, but I don't have a kid in ELA to say - then I guess they've decided starting with 2s will make them look good? We experienced this with teachers who just wanted to make it look like every kid was growing. They'd start the kid off with a lower grade - usually a 3 - and make sure that they got to a 4 by the end of the year. The quality of the work wouldn't change at all. Instead of "grades don't matter" we focused on the kids doing their best on each individual assignment - not that we saw many of those - and then reinforced that the number grades were a reflection of a lot of things and not all of them were under our kids' control. They vastly, vastly prefer getting percentage grades on everything and knowing how all those grades come together into a letter grade.[/quote]
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