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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]awesome, 85% of my daughter's classmates received P for Proficient last year. What a bunch of smarties... They passed the proficiency bar... What about the bar for potential?  Oops this is msps.[/quote]

So true!!! But yea explain to them that P is a better motivator than A. These people defending it must be government workers that don't know the meaning of motivation. 85% in one bucket, Lower the bar.......[/quote]

NP here, you see the thing is, it has only been recently that our DC has even mentioned "P"s or "ES's.
In our family, we have set up learning and doing your best as the motivator.
We don't expect symbols for grades, be they "P"'s or "A"'s to be our child's PRIMARY motivator for doing DC's best.
If the only thing motivating your kid is the grade they get, then you have a family problem, not a MCPS problem.[/quote]

Well, the problem is, how do they get feedback when everybody gets the same rating?  How do you judge "learning and doing your best" if everything is the same?[/quote]
But everything is not the same.
How is this so different from "O"'s and "I"'s and "A"''s and "B"'s?
Do you not get a green assessment form that comes home on Thursday's?
The form shows 4 weeks worth of assessments.
It outlines the various areas of learning and the teacher denotes "Demonstrates", etc.
Then at the bottom there is a place for teacher notes.
Plus our kid's teachers gives letter grades for classwork, and notes on the class work.
 Things like "You need to do...." or "Great ideas"
Do you not get this sort of form and/or feedback?
My kid is in 3rd grade by the way.
Do you not [/quote]

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