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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Big picture I agree with these posters - you won't need the report card for the conference, because the teacher should know how your child is doing both overall and with respect to any areas that are struggles or high achievement - and really, the teachers mostly speak in generalizations anyway. [b]I find these conferences pretty useless and impersonal, in fact (veteran of 8 years of them over 2 kids).[/b]
With respect to the specifics on the report card, though, I don't think the teacher will remember every I vs P vs ES because the geading rubric is somewhat arbitrary, so I have found that I doesn't always match the teacher's own assessment - maybe match isn't the exact right word choice, because it is not that they differ tremendously, but the specific grade components don't necessarily match the teacher's overall assessment of performance. For example the teacher may think the child is strong in math, yet the child "only" has a P grade in it (because the child was catching on quickly and getting everything right, but didn't orally demonstrate to the teacher some comprehension beyond what was being taught).  Or the child may get an ES in a particular category of the writing components (because the child may have gotten an ES on the one assignment he did in that component), yet the teacher basically thinks the child is an average writer. [/quote]

It's interesting that you should say that, because my experience from elementary-school conferences has always been: yes, that's my kid the teacher is talking about; yes, my kid does this; yes, my kid is like that.[/quote]

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