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[quote=Anonymous]So, we were at Discovery from 2015 when this was implemented (at least according to the slides). The good news: the quality of the instruction was fine (more than fine, actually), and the teachers and administrators were great. The only thing I did not like was when they changed the grading. I can't remember the euphemisms, but when we started the student basically received a grade of unsatisfactory, satisfactory, or exceeds level. At some point, they eliminated the exceeds level grade. Once they did that it got a lot harder to actually evaluate how our child was doing, simply because in a lot of the graded topics (and there are a lot), the student gets a satisfactory if he is breathing. The other thing to take into consideration is if they cannot distinguish themselves by exceeding minimal standards, it's going to be increasingly hard to earn a decent living in the U.S. Maybe this is now considered impolite to mention, but that is increasingly the reality of the world they are heading into.[/quote]

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