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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I agree with you that, I don't want my kid to learn those points you made, such as "don't work just for grades etc." In fact that is what I keep telling my child. But this does not invalidate my earlier point. Why can't we just get a narrative report from the teacher without any grades, instead of a highly inconsistent and commentless grading method that sends a very wrong message to young children. Why do I have to keep reminding my child that grades are not important, this grading method is unfair, meaningless etc. (Of course I don't say that to my child, but I try to essentially give her that message.) Please answer this question. Don't diverge into other arguments which is not my point.[/quote]

I agree with this 100%. Its awful that basically have to tell my child to ignore grades, grades are meaningless, and not fair. IMO grades serve three purposes

a.) to inform parents of a child's progress and identify areas of weakness strength so that the parent can help the child achieve what they are capable of doing
b.) provide a granular enough structure to identify learning disabilities early on so that children can get the assistance that they deserve
c.) to teach kids that achievement counts, if you are not naturally one of the super smart kids you can learn and even achieve the highest grade if you work hard

IMO "c" is a ver empowering thing for a child to learn. Every kid will hit a time at some point where something doesn't come easy and they need to spend extra effort to understand and practice to master a skill. For a kid who isn't naturally good at math to study and get the highest grade sends a powerful message to that kid. This is the type of kid that does far batter in higher education and industry later on.

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As parents, we see a report card that lays out all the various areas of learning under the major subjects, it also lays out the various areas of metacognition -- to show you HOW your child processes and HOW your child is learning.
What fails to be informative about this???? WHAT?
Grading each of these areas gives me, the parent, much more detailed information than a number grade alone. These grading symbols coupled with DETAILED information given by the teacher in notes on classwork, notes on homework, emails, and conferences gives the parent a rather clear picture of what and how your child is learning. What more do you want? I'm sorry but knowing simply that my child got a "B"/85% in a subject gives me much LESS information. As for goal setting, I'm sorry but that is a very lame reason to not like this system. We teach our kid that the goal is that DC is learning and is able to share the information that he/she is learning. We celebrate when DC learns something new, does a terrific project, is excited about something we did in school. Our kid knows that the goal is the ACTUAL LEARNING, not the symbol that may or may not provide information as to what your kid is, you know, ACTUALLY LEARNING!
When people start going on about that nonsense, I usually think that the same person in an office somewhere promoting the idiot who went to Harvard, but couldn't find tell their behind from a paperbag. But their resume says they went to an IVY even though their work product says diddly squat. Meantime the persons doing all the real work get no credit.

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