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[quote=Anonymous]OP here.  I agree with a lot of what has been said.  I don't know if 'P' means my child knows fractions cold or has demonstrated the concept but not always consistently applied it.  My child has ADD so it's a good news/bad news that work completion is a separate grade and not part of the main grade.  On one hand, if my child gets the concept but isn't turning in work, he isn't penalized in the academic grade, on the other hand if he isn't turning in work it isn't impacting the academic grade so it isn't a priority for the school to loop us in and work with DS. There is also no natural consequence for him to experience. At some point follow-thru and completion will matter and I question if DS will be ready.

I wonder if proficient means my child got 100% on the assessment or 70% or somewhere in between.   I need to understand where the weaknesses are, like a UCARE breakdown or having some comments to understand the weaker proficiency grades . I also need to understand what are careless mistakes versus weak understanding of the topic so I can either look into strategies to prevent careless mistakes or additional resources to help look at a topic a different way or more practice in areas of struggle.

As for In progress, not clear if this means a new concept is being taught so its fine to be In-progress or " Whoa Nelly, your kid is lagging here" It's like a combination of the old satisfactory ( if your kid is progressing at an expected rate) and needs improvement (if your kid doesn't turn this into a P by the end of the year). I've asked about DS getting I's in writing thru 3rd quarter and teacher was not concerned and EMT team agreed no need for any additional resources that child was on-grade level.  So not only is it unclear the mastery in quantative terms for proficient and the strength/weaknesses within that and the fact you can be proficient apart from work completion BUT I can't tell when my child is not moving towards profiency fast enough and may need some extra help before outright failing  and getting N.[/quote]

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