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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know..I have posted on here a few times in favor of the system. Tried to explain the upsides and was shouted down. I am not the principal. I have a junior in APs in Madison and so far, the kids seem to understand the system fine and do well.

I can see why some of you don't care for it, but it is beyond willfully ignorant to yell that those of who do are shills or don't have kids or whatever.

And insisting that ALL or even most JMHS parents are frothing mad is wrong

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There's more than one person on this thread who thinks the negative reactions to SBG are over-stated; or at least not representative of everyone.  The posters who hate SBG are unwilling to consider that possibility.

Plenty of kids are able to adjust to it.  Also, as a parent, I don't get involved in knowing what the rubric is for each assignment.  That's my kids' job.  I give teachers enough respect to allow them to do their job (teaching and assessing), and I don't feel the need to micromanage what the teacher is doing or what my kids are getting for grades.  We are o.k. with the outcomes.  Grades are not controlling our household or mental health.  It's freeing, really.  [/quote]
But why make this change at all?[/quote]

Exactly. No one can point to an actual positive of the program. It's freeing not to worry about grades and learning is a goal of school? These aren't school goals. Maybe for a parent or student that doesn't care about school that much and is more into something like football where I'm sure then they care about metrics. I bet football parents care very much about their winning record so people like that can't say that grades and learning shouldnt matter when its a huge sports school that people are extremely competitive with on sports and even other activities like band and orchestra. It's not a reason to overhaul school grading when the primary purpose of the school is education. There are no good reasons to implement this system. No one has said a single positive to kids actually learning more or achieving more because of it. There are no records of kids doing better on SOLs because of it. Many negatives. [/quote]

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