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[quote=Anonymous]While it would be great to get a personalized narrative about my child's specific needs and achievements as some have said exists somewhere... it isn't going to happen, so why pine for it?

This new grading system is pretty useless for middle and upper elementary. Speaking just for our family, my daughter will have this new system for the first and last time next year in 6th grade -- when she has already been used to several years of letter grades and she (and we) have a grasp of what those grades mean. Now, the year before middle school will be graded with these vague statements that won't help her or us really know about progress, so we'll spend more time than ever talking with her teacher -- during the 6th grade year, when teachers are already overloaded getting kids ready for middle school and, oh yes!, the beloved SOLs. I'm sure sixth grade teachers are just thrilled with this change.

Kids have to get used to letter grades in middle school, why not start them in middle elementary years as has been done up until now?

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