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[quote=Anonymous]Students go to school to learn. For a student to advance from one level to the next, she needs to demonstrate certain level of competency; her knowledge and abilities need to be assessed. Grade/score is a measure of such an assessment. A grade matters as long as its is the only, or the most effective, way of assessing knowledge/abilities. If a better (more convincing) measure is available, grade would not matter as much. For example, the acceptance of home schooled kids to college depends less on grades and more on student portfolios. Let's not give grade more importance than it deserves, especially in front of young impressionable kids who might mistakenly assume schoolwork is about getting grades and not about learning. [/quote]
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