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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If there’s no comments I’d get in touch with the teacher to confirm- we have had glitches this year with some standards not appearing, comments, etc even when they appear in our drafts. We do have some standard comments about what the students learned but we add personalized things as well where relevant.[/quote]

To the OP, if there are literally no extra comments, I would contact the teacher and ask about it.  Sometimes the forms populate strangely.

I don't love SBG, but it is not really worse than the early grades report cards used to be with the # and - signs to signify whether a kid was doing well or not in a particular area.  [/quote]

I didn't need letter grades for my early elementary students, and I could be persuaded that later elementary students don't need letter grades, either, if that's what the teachers want. But for high school classes? Grades, please, and also don't allow infinite redos -- that just makes more work for the teachers. [/quote]

Oh, crap.  I'm the PP and just have an elementary child.  Have they moved SBG into MS and HS?  I might have totally blocked that out.[/quote]

They're planning to:

https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/arlington/Board.nsf/files/C7XLVB557627/$file/101421%20School%20Board%20Work%20Session%20-%20Grading%20%26%20Homework.pdf[/quote]

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