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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pick your battles.  Some us us (and our kids) are doing fine with SBG.  Not everyone thinks Madison has gone to hell in a handbasket.  It's different.  But not doomsday.  [/quote]

It sounds like you have a laid back kid who is happy getting by. I have one of those too. But my other kid that is especially driven is finding the grading process, particularly the lack of distinction between a b+ and a b- stressful and unfair. But it does remind me of the real world, where the less driven workers still end up getting paid (often) the same as the folks who go all out. So maybe this is a good lesson to learn early on, why put in a ton of effort for little gain. [/quote]

He knows when he needs to put in more effort and knows when he's got it all down.  I'd say that is a skill too.  And when he hasn't done well on an assignment in math, for instance, he goes for extra help at warhawk time to improve skills, then does better on a later assesment.  That's how it's supposed to work!  If you can show mastery on a later opportunity, the earlier lower grade doesn't haunt you.

To the person thinking of continuing at private because of tjis discussion,  I think you are making a very expensive decision on very poor information.

There is a reason to discuss gradung changes and there are up-sides and down-sides to EVERY system.  [b] This thread is a whole different level of drama[/b] than what is happening on the ground in the school.  Who knows what will happen next year!  But really, life is going on as it always has at Madison.  It's the same as always...if you thought highly of it before, I would not get all worked up by this thread.  [/quote]
Imagine the level of drama if they had instead fiddled with baseball or band..[/quote]

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