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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All of you parents who say your kid can't draw well, I hate to break it to you, but they can't write very well either.  If your kids got the grades they actually deserved on writing assignments, you'd complain about that as well.[/quote]

Nope.  When I was in school every essay was given 2 grades, one for content and the other for mechanics.  My teacher was a stickler and there were times I had do many errors that the deductions dropped the mechanics grade to zero.  I certainly didn’t like it, but I learned.  You can’t improve if you don’t understand what needs improvement.  The purpose of school is not to get good grades, but to learn.  Grades are merely a rough indicator of how much learning has occurred.  If my kids can’t write, I want their teachers to reflect that in their grades, and then teach them how to improve (which will likewise be reflected in higher grades).[/quote]

You’re one of the only parents who feels that way. When teachers try to grade honestly, the complaints from parents come flooding in. Ms. S. gave my kid a C and it has crushed my kid’s self esteem, etc. And we aren’t allowed to give zeros any more for all task assignments assuming the student turned something in even if it was all gibberish. And giving even one zero on an all task assignment means we are supposed to email parents about it. MCPS does not want to get rid of grade inflation and they come up with ways to make it a huge hassle for teachers to grade honestly [/quote]

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