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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just to reiterate again.  Its possible no one is getting ES grades.  At some schools or with some teachers it just doesn't happen.   There is sometimes no opportunity to get an ES.  I had to teach my son to be happy with a P.   Sad, but true.[/quote]

I believe this to be true. I think that the guidelines for giving an ES are so nebulous that some principals, or certainly teachers, have eliminated the arbitrariness by just not issuing them. At our elementary school the teacher actually told us not to look at the ES as on the top (as it was pictured on the graph) but think of it as something altogether different (I'm paraphrasing, but that was the jist). My kid is in second grade; she is at level P for reading, gets pulled out for William and Mary (a reading program) and is accelerated in math...has never gotten an ES. Obviously she is past being just "proficient" in her grade level material. HOWEVER I am fine with her not getting an ES because I don't want her to focus on that at all. I want her to work hard so she learns, that optimally being the reward in and of itself. I certainly would not want her to have a report card full of ES's at this point. I want her praised for working hard, not for being smart, and I don't want her to think she is working for a grade of any sort right now. She is working to learn, the grades are just to inform parents at this point. Unfortunately she is aware of the ES and has expressed a desire to get an ES which I truly believe may not be possible at her school. [/quote]

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