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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]

Well, report cards used to have comments for one thing. The teacher would at least note whether the student was polite, diligent, tended to be spacey, needed to put in more effort, simple short comments like that.

If the grades are good, then obviously either the effort is there or [b]additional effort beyond what the student put in is unnecessary[/b].

If grades are unsatisfactory, lack of effort is always going to be my first suspicion. We will start there, and if that doesn't begin to show an improvement in the student's grades within a month or so we will contact the teacher to see if other issues may be at play besides lack of effort. Frequently, however, letter grades can speak for themselves.[/quote]

So if your child is just skating by but has an A, that's fine with you?

A P also speaks for itself, by the way. And if you find an I unsatisfactory, you can similarly start with lack of effort, and then if that doesn't work, contact the teacher to see if other issues are at play.[/quote]

A P does not convey as much useful information as letter grades do. As mentioned in a previous post, I believe this because P covers such a wide range and you don't really know where the student falls within that. See the last paragraph of 12:48 for why I don't find it useful to know my student has gotten a P -

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They have met the standard, but have they just barely met it or are they far above it and producing work that's consistently almost completely free from mistakes? That is information I would find valuable, and due to the design of the letter grade system it is much easier to find that out under letter grades. With letter grades there are either 3 or 4 "successful" levels, depending on the school's policies. Either a D or a C is "barely meeting" the standards, and there are well-defined levels above that to differentiate how well a given student is meeting or exceeding the standards. [/quote][/quote]

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