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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This +1000 elementary school grades don't "count" toward college but they do mean something to the kids.

Young kids want to please teachers and they are proud when they do well. Let's face it, the school work isn't that exciting even for the kids. They need positive reinforcement. Grades can be this incentive and reinforcement. Bad grading systems that are arbitrary or inconsistent can create disincentives.

The kids know that if they write 1 sentence they will get a P. If the kid tries to get an ES by writing 4 sentences, still gets a P and isn't told what he should do differently next time to get an ES he will not write 4 sentences again. He'll go back to 1. In is mind, there is no point or value in writing more. He won't get an ES anyway so why bother since the goal is P.

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When I was in elementary school, we didn't get grades. None. No grades. Nothing from kindergarten all the way through sixth grade. Somehow, nonetheless, the teachers provided positive reinforcement, most students generally tried to do good work, and parents knew how their children were doing.

(I like to shock my children by telling them that at my elementary school, there were no grades and three recesses a day.)[/quote]

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