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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD's teacher just emailed earlier in the week to tell us she'll be getting a number of Ns and Is due to her not completing work such as math worksheets where she has to write the numbers or writing worksheets where she has to write letters.

DD is above grade level for the areas that the teacher says she's giving her Ns and Is so the problem isn't that she doesn't know the information.  I am 100 percent sure the teacher knows DD knows this information as she scored extremely well on assessments they did when they first started K.

I do believe that teachers should be allowed to penalized students for not following directions and doing all the work that is assigned even if they have mastered the skills being practiced. However, the MCPS grading system does not seem to take this into account according to the official descriptions of the grading system. They seem to imply that the only thing that matters for some subjects is whether you are at the grade level standard.

MCPS definitions:
I	In progress toward meeting the grade-level standard
N	Not yet making progress or making minimal progress toward meeting the grade-level standard

I'm sad about the bad grades, but not tremendously worried as this is K after all, but I worry that the grades imply that DD is working at below grade level at many subjects where in reality she's just working below grade level in terms of her study habits and following directions etc.

Do you tell your child his/her grades on a report card like this? I worry it would hurt her self-esteem and make her feel stupid.

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Oh, I would definitely *not* tell my kid about his/her grades in Kindergarten.  If I had concerns that my kid weren't trying at assignments, I'd tell him/her that the teacher said s/he wasn't trying at assignments.  I don't think I'd even mention the existence of grades.[/quote]

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