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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Would an O/S/I in Reading -- just Reading, no subcategories, no anything else -- have been more helpful? That's what the previous report card had.[/quote]

Yes, it did. O/S/I correlated to the graded assignments and unit tests in reading, math, writing and other subjects. If your child received an I or S, the teacher could clearly show the work that led had deficiencies. The boundary between S/O was good for kids in the middle or upper middle who were not struggling but not performing as well as they could. It was clear what kids getting an S needed to do to earn an O and this produced better work for those kids. It also gave kids pride that they went from S to O. It sent the message that practice and working hard can lead to achievement.

The new system is basically P and I. You have a conflation of the measurement scale. Work that would have been an S in the past, is now a P. Better schools have teachers that send home lots of comments on work and share with parents off-line whether their child is earning what they consider a "low P" pr a "high P". Other schools or teachers are sending home hardly any graded assignments, sending an occasional P and not able to produce anything in the conferences.

MCPS has a strong anti-achievement perspective. Its about MCPS doing well not students actually learning anything or students achieving the best they can do. [/quote]
We got lots of comments -- and an outline of our kid's strength's and weaknesses. This report card has way more areas of information. Now if the teacher is not commenting on classwork, projects and the report card -- that is a teacher problem, not a report card problem.
Frankly, I want to know more than how my kid is performing on a test, I want to know HOW my kid is learning as well as the content thereof. I got A,B, O, S's in elementary school, compared to my kid's report card -- it told parents exactly NOT MUCH![/quote]

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