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The reason I like letter grades, even in elementary school, is that to me they provide the clearest possible picture of exactly how much the kid has learned and grasped sufficiently to actually show in various ways that can be assessed. Typically, the letter grades correspond to specific percentages. In this way, [b]I can see that my child who has earned a "C" grade knows between 70% and 79% of the material. To me that is not very good, because it means 20-30% of the material they do not understand.[/b] So I could ask the teacher how to help them understand more of the material, until they're closer to 85 or 90% which seems like a much more solid basis to move on to additional material.
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It doesn't mean this, though. All it means is that they got 70-79% of the possible points. The points might have been for what they knew (for example, on a test), or the points might have been for what they did related to the subject (for example, on a project), or the points might even have been for something they did unrelated to the subject (for example, they participated in class, or they turned a project in on time).[/quote]

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