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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the Pp who thinks "assessments" with grades like p- which most kids seem to receive regardless of the performance- are helpful. I disagree.  Maybe you weren't in the system when unit test with numerical grades were the norm, but I can tell you, they were far more informative.  I don't think there's a legit reason to get rid of unit tests and I believe it hurts kids (and keeps parents in the dark).[/quote]

Serious questions here,  are you not getting classwork back?
Are you not getting a weekly assessment of various areas of learning that has a letter assessment "D" (demonstrating), "P" progressing, 
plus the accompanying note by the teacher?
We get all of the above, plus quick and INFORMATIVE, DETAILED replies to emails to the teacher.
Our child is also being tested in spelling.
Not sure if they are having math tests.
But a combination of the classroom work and assessments we receive give us a very good idea of what our child is learning.
As far as study habits, we are teaching these in regards to homework. Our kid gets homework at the beginning of the week.
We work with her on how to space out the completion of this homework. 
With writing we are teaching her to pick the book and prompt on day 1, roughdraft on day 2, final copy editing and final draft on day 3.
Of course this varies sometimes, but is working.
We are teaching her that she needs to start her homework at aftercare and that she cannnot get up just because they say homework time is over...if you have work...continue your work...ask for a quieter place to study if need be.
If the teacher asks for 3 sentences -- we require 1 or 2 more.
Sometimes we have had her "redo" poorly graded classwork(sometimes for legibility, sometimes to reinforce the learning of the work -- especially math)
We supplement from time to time.
Bottom line is that for our family, we feel that study habits are structured, established and dictated by us and the benefits are seen in the school work and in life in general.
We don't feel that school dictates the study habits.
Does that make sense?[/quote]

That's lovely, but doesn't actually address the issue at hand.  I can tell you from first hand information that under the old system, we, as parents got much more meaningful information about how our children were doing.  Yes, we too are involved and do many of the things you not, however, I do that in my capacity as parent.  I also have expectations of what the school should do in it's (different) capacity.  The bottom line is that the "real world" has important things like tests (hello SATs and entrance exams, etc.) and having unit tests in school (and having to learn the skill set required to do well on unit tests) is an important part of the learning process.  No one is suggesting that the "school dictate the study habits" as you suggest.  Rather this is about the best way to teach so that kids are being assessed in an objective and rigorous way so that they (and we) know how they are doing.  You disagree and that's fine.  In my experience, this new system is bunk.[/quote]

I hear you and to tell the truth I thought I was responding to the poster who had mentioned not having tests meant kids did not learn study habits. Sorry for the confusion on that issue.
We were under the old system for a couple of years, and find that we are getting the same amount of information and we find it just as useful. Really, there is nothing to disagree about. You don't like the system and I do. What is to disagree -- I certainly would not try to convince you that you really do like it, but you just think you don't.[/quote]

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