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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And they don't rank the high school students now and give them GPA's?  This thread started about elementary school which is a bit early for ranking.[/quote]

Yes.  My[b] first [/b]grade son apparently lost it in class and burst out in tears when he got a math test back and got 1 wrong question due to a silly mistake.  He got a 90%.  All year he had been getting 100% on everything. We think first grade is even early for percent grading.  Don't you remember just getting smiley faces and checks and minuses?  I was in elementary school in Fairfax County in the mid70s-early 80s and don't even remember grades this early on.

It's crazy because DH and I don't even discuss grades since our kids are so young---just do your best mentality, etc.  I felt like the teacher must think I am some crazy tiger mom that beats her kids for anything less than 100%.  He puts the pressure solely on himself and is a perfectionist in sports too.  However, the schools forcing grading/pull-outs, etc. so early are doing our kids a disservice.  Creativity has taken a backseat.  I am fairly taditional in my beliefs in academic teaching methods but I do think we've gotten extreme in this area.  Class rank in elem. school is crazy.  Kids progress at different rates...academic stars early on don't always end up that way by HS.  There is a reason our country has the Steve Jobs and Bill Gates---not some of the countries others have touted as superior in learning.  They can't think outside of a box in a lot of those places.[/quote]

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