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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Only some MS parents dislike the report cards. Many, including me, are totally fine with them and actually find the content useful to guide our kids towards how to excel in HS. Simplistic letter grades would not do that in my opinion.[/quote]

I know that at Saint Ann’s in NYC, which is famous for not giving formal grades, teachers write long evaluations that one can decipher what the approximate grade would be. Would you say that’s true for GDS MS?[/quote]

No. The report cards used to include long evaluations, but the same motivation that led to the removal of grades in MS led to the removal of personalized comments. It’s all very boilerplate to avoid favoritism. We are a long time GDS family that over twelve years sent several kids to the MS. I got to the point with my most recent Middle Schooler where I barely looked at the report cards. They just were not informative. There also seemed to be a movement to do more in class work in the MS because the school was worried about AI and cheating. That meant less homework, but also seems to have left kids less prepared for HS.  All of these changes are made with the best of intentions. Some work and some do not.  [/quote]

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