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[quote=Anonymous]There's nothing dramatic about actually caring about your child's education. If you don't care about your kid's education fine, be happy. The only defense I have read from the 1 or 2 posters supporting MCPS is that grades don't matter and symbols have no meaning. Not a strong defense.

Grades are not abstract symbols or meaningless marks. They are measurements. The new system is highly inappropriate. Yes, the weaker teachers enjoy this system because it is 100% easier on them to execute than an actual grading system with granular measurements that they must define, share with students and parents, and provide consistent feedback.

As a teacher, I can tell you that including meaningful comments takes a lot of work. You must keep good notes and spend time thinking about each student to create comments for each grading cycle. You needed to create unit tests that had an appropriate degree of base level questions and challenge questions to distinguish between the N, S, and O. You had to be clear about what a student needed to do differently to be an O rather than an S. This is all gone with the new system. In the past, students would want more help to get from an S to O. This motivated them. Now, they don't even know whether they are a high P or low P. Feedback is not required.

I honestly believe that these kids going through the "everyone shoots for P" phase will be very unprepared once they emerge into an actual grade based system. The super bright kids will be fine but the upper middle, middle and lower performing students will be in for a shock rather than being well prepared from their earlier education.

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