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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Curriculum is too repetitive and the grading is horrible.  My child has no clue how he is doing with a P.  100% = P  85% = P.  He has no motivation to strive for excellence.  Why bother- it's just another P.  And I have not seen one single math assignment, quiz, or paper with any sort of grade at all.  It's a week until end of the quarter conferences and I have no clue how he's doing in math and neither does he.  When I ask how it's going in math, he just shrugs his shoulders.  I also see a LOT of worksheets from all subject areas that come home that he says he doesn't have to do.  It's either a huge waste of paper or my child is not doing the work.  Since I haven't had any feedback, our family has no clue how he's really doing.  The grading system when we see it, is meaningless.[/quote]

If your elementary school child works, or doesn't work, for a grade, that is a problem.

If you don't know how he's doing in math, and he doesn't either, and you haven't seen any graded papers, and he says he doesn't have to do the stuff that he brought home, and you  haven't talked to the teacher about this -- those are also problems.

But they're not Curriculum 2.0's problems.[/quote]
AMEN!
Almost all of my DC's classwork comes home at the end of the week -- all with grades AND NOTES..and gets a weekly assessment that comes home...at parent/teacher conference we were handed a detailed assessment of DC's areas of strengths and areas that needed focus(teacher's wording -- she did not use the word "weakness") ... 
You have teacher and/or school problems not a curriculum problem[/quote]

B.S.  The curriculum change IS the heart of the problem.  Even honest teachers, principals, administrators will tell you so (off the record, of course).  THEY think it is ridiculous.  if you don't get that this is a bad curriculum along with a hide-the-ball grading system (which has drastically eliminated real tests) then, frankly, you deserve the sub-par system you are getting.

One day, when your child takes a real test that has real consequences, you are likely in for a rude awakening.  One day, your child won't even know how to learn large quantities of info, retain that info and successfully test on that material.  Either this will happen in MS or HS (if 2.0 is finally abandoned by then) or it is when your kid takes an SAT test.  Taking squishy assessments that don't have a clear standard might work for you and your kid now, but that isn't reality.  Everyone getting the same letter grade regardless of whether they answer all questions correctly or whether they get 7 questions wrong.  Big wake up call coming your way when your kid simply expects a "good" grade for everything.[/quote]

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