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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The new report cards are meaningless.  They seem designed to hide-the-ball rather than to demonstrate a student's progress.  It is time for parents to wise-up to the implications of curriculum 2.0 (everyone is the same, work at the same level, all move at the same pace) and the new report cards (hide info from parents, make it look like everyone is "proficient").
Our kids only have one chance in this educational system.  They deserve better.[/quote]

Please show where curriculum 2.0 implies that everyone is the same/works at the same level/moves at the same pace. Please also show that everybody is getting a P in everything (or even that almost everybody is getting a P in almost everything). Finally, please explain what you would consider a meaningful elementary-school report card.[/quote]

In our school kids who were doing different levels of math pre C2.0 have now all been moved to the same class.  Within that class (and across the whole grade) there are only 2 groups for math.  You are either "on level" or "on level with enrichment".  Everyone is now at the same level, moving at the same pace.  Previously there were at least 4 different levels for math.

A meaningful elementary report card would tell me to what degree my child is proficient -- proficiency is not an on/off switch.  It would also tell me how far they are in progress.  Currently, I could mean that my child has attained 1 out of 20 precursor skills to proficiency or 19 out of 20.  An N can mean either that a subject has not been introduced or that it has been introduced but that the child is not making progress.  A meaningful report card system would have identified assessments that are graded and shared with parents so that parents can see what their child is missing and why.  If kids are being judge on "UCARE" in order to get a P, then each assessment would be marked with the components of UCARE.  Also, a meaningful system would provide clear opportunities for kids to earn an ES.  At our school the teacher acknowledged that no papers were provided to the kids for them to work and earn an ES.  Students had only been provided with papers sufficient to earn a P -- all kids only had the chance to earn the same grade. [/quote]

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