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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hope people engage with this topic because I'd love to hear more perspectives.

We've never shared grades or teacher feedback on report grades with our now 3rd grader and 1st grader.  I'm not even sure if our kids know report cards or standardized scores exist.

It wasn't a conscious decision to not share, but when we discussed it, we realized we have the same perspective.  Our 3rd graders is in AAP and always receives max scores.  We want to encourage the process of trying hard and learning for the sake of learning, rather than focusing on the final grade.  We don't think it would benefit her much to know she gets all 4s (and a couple of scattered 3s) because we still don't think she works especially hard and I don't want to give her incentive to coast.  She also has a bit of anxiety and we don't her worrying about grades and report cards. We do discuss specific assignments as they come in, but don't want to focus much on grades.

Our 1st grader is not as academically advanced but we think it's our responsibility (not his) to figure out how to supplement his learnings and discuss ways for improvement with teacher.  We aren't convinced that discussion of grades would be a motivating factor, nor do we think he lacks motivation.[/quote]

Basically exactly the same family dynamic and choice for our family.  I just never thought about sharing report cards with our kids — which is kind of weird because I remember it being a big deal to me as a kid, but now that they’re online vs coming home in backpacks, it’s easy to check and not talk about it with the kids.  We do have conversations around parent teacher time- like- what do you think Mrs X will tell us? What should we tell her? What do you think you need to work on? What are you particularly liking at school? Etc [/quote]

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