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A B is more meaningful because it correlates with an actual numerical score, usually in the 80s, depending whether plus/minus grades are given. So, there was a difference between getting an 88 (B or B+) or a 98 (A or A+ in terms of knowing how well your child was doing. But now, some teachers seem to give P for both 88 and 98, while others give 88 and I, and 98 a P. In some schools, there is no difference between what would formerly have been B work and A work, while at other schools P is the old B, and ES is given out to many high achieving students, and yet other schools,like ours I is more like the old B, and P is A.[/quote]

But the numerical score also isn't necessarily meaningful. And the work that gets you an 88% at School A is not necessarily the same as the work that gets you an 88% at School B. So while I agree that the ES/P/I/N grading system, by itself, is inadequate, I don't think it's any more inadequate than the A/B/C/D/F grading system, or the O/S/N grading system.[/quote]

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