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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid got one ES in a special (forgot which one...bc these report cards are so silly...2.0 essentially makes grades meaningless). [/quote]

I think that's the point.  Elementary school (in this school of thought, not saying I agree or disagree) is to acquire skills and show that you acquired them.  They need to learn the material.  If it takes them 10 tries or 2 tries, they need to become "proficient."  Once they have learned it, time to move to something else, or go deeper.  It's a different mindset than in MS/HS, where students learn the matieral and then get graded on what they choose to do.  In a perfect world in which all students learn everything they are taught, the grading system of MS/HS is really grading effort.  The elementary school system with these report cards is showing what they have actually learned.  The work study skills grades tell you about their effort, which is essentially they part the student has the most control over.  That's what I immedaitely turn to now when report cards come home.

It made a heck of a lot mroe sense to me once I started looking at this way.[/quote]

This is BS.  Are you saying that a grade in MS Algebra denotes how much effort you put in?  No, it is supposed to reflect that you acquired the algebraic skills, because if you don't acquire them to a high enough degree, you can not move on successfully to the next level of math.  All grades should denote whether skills have been met or they are meaningless.  Work study skills grades are useless, IMO, since they are just holistically given by the teacher and not based on any documented performance, meaning they are highly subject to bias. [/quote]

I'm not the PP but it most certainly can denote effort...  If it was strict computational skills then why not just have tests and nothing else.  Grades as far as I can recall are based on many other factors generally.  Participation, projects, homework, etc.  If I take the final exam and get a A+ but I never turned in any homework or didn't take it seriously so my A+ is reduced to a C does that mean I'm not proficient in computation?  Certainly not....  I just demonstrated it via the exam. [/quote]

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