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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I read through all the replies just to make sure I'm not repeating what someone else had said. I felt sure someone would have made this point.

The grades your child is getting in class are the grade they get for the work they've done in that class. It's not a test grade like you get for the MAP R, or on an SAT or a score on an IQ test.

The "Reading" grade is not necessarily about your child's reading [b]ability level[/b].

It is your child's grade for the class. Maybe your child didn't show the teacher that she understood the material. Maybe your child didn't read the work assigned. Maybe she was chatting with her friends half the time the teacher was trying to discuss the book. She might be the greatest reader in the world, but not a good student in the reading class at school. Actually, the P says that she IS a good student in Reading. She's just not an above-and-beyond student in that class.

It seems not very respectful of the teaching process if the teacher gives grades based purely on an ability ranking if the student is not performing well in class. They might as well use the MAP-R to determine the grades, and then what's the point of having the kids in class at all?
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