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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Why are your kids NOT making A's on the assessments? Are you saying that is the teacher's fault?[/quote]

Here is one reason from a student that posted earlier: Madison did do away with + and - for assignments. So you also have a "shaky foundation." A B- paper is completely different from a B+ paper, but now there is no longer that distinction. I am a student, and I find it really frustrating that inaccurate representations of my skill level are being put into the gradebook.

[quote]As for kids not getting F's -- that happens when they actually show what they know on the assessments.[/quote]

Why do you think the kids making Ds are learning more? Has the curriculum changed? Has the teaching changed? The only thing that has changed is the grading system. Prove to me the gap is being closed because these kids are learning more.

To all the parents that think it's no big deal to no longer count practice work and your kids can learn about attendance and deadlines later: This sounds like privilege to me. When I talk to people of color and immigrants, they do not talk about education this way. They say things like, "Education is the most important thing." "This time is critical and it goes by fast."

I'm a teacher and very familiar with the boy that likes to chill in class and do his work in study hall, later or not at all. They hold everyone else in the class back because they constantly have to be redirected. SBG just helps to cultivate more students like this. Everything may work out for them later, but that class time is critical for the students trying to learn.

I was at a school where a similar equity driven policy was put into place. Teachers left. The parents who cared about education went private or moved. Test scores went down. About 4 years into it, the principal was pushed out and retired. Four years is too late for my kids.

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