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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child receives weekly progress reports but they use a different grading system.  He does get work sent home each week with the new grade.  Most are Ps some Es and completely unclear what the difference is. [/quote]

Well, at least you have some communication and can see some of the work he is doing at school.  At Beverly Farms, we get nothing.  No clue what he is working on for the time he is there.  No clue how he is doing and if he needs extra help and practice.  No communication what so ever.  It sucks.[/quote]
But isn't that a teacher/school culture issue more so than a Curriculum 2.0/new grading scale issue?

My 1st grader brings home all the sheets they've been doing in school during the week with grades (mostly P's, a few ES's and a couple N's).  On the back of a few of her writing assignments even had the guidelines on what to write/what the teacher should be looking for in order to get an ES, a P, etc.

Her homework packet this week even had an extension exercise.

I just don't see all these problems concerning Curriculum 2.0/the new grading scale that everyone is up in arms about.  Is it perfect?  No.  But was the previous curriculum perfect?  Was the previous grading scale perfect?

You are probably relatively comfortable with 2.0 b/c your kid is in 1st grade.  This means you don't have a kid who thrived under the old (more rigorous) curriculum for a few years and, b/c of 2.0, is now forced to re-do simple concepts that were covered and mastered a years ago.  Imagine if your 1st grader had to spend this year doing all the "work" that he did in his 1st year of pre-school.  I bet you wouldn't be too happy about it.  THAT is the experience of some 3rd graders this year.  THAT is why parents are upset.  (The issue with the new report card is that it seems to have been created/implemented in order to hide the lack of rigor of the new curriculum - i.e., everyone gets a P.)

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