Obviously, I want my children to do their best but I have 3 kids and they are all over the place in ability. My oldest is very, very bright...knew that from her tests, her homework, just the ease that everything came to her. Always got mostly 4's some 3's. My middle dd is average, does well and I can see how she is doing by the same things..test scores. homework etc. My little guy has a learning disability and struggles like crazy just to keep up with the work..his report cards do help me to see the areas he struggles with while also showing me that he has a wonderful attitude by getting 4's in the behavior and other scores. Now, the older 2 are in high school and middle school and number grades are very important to me. I know what they are capable of and expect them to get those grades. For example, my oldest is expected to make honor roll and middle dd is expected to come darn close if notmake it also. My ds will be a different story...an 80 will probably be a great score for him and will be celebrated as such.
That's exactly what I was thinking. If the teacher is testing/quizzing the students on the things they were taught, than an A- (92) tells me that my child has learned 92% of the material that was important enough to be tested.
To me, an ambiguous 3 tells me nothing about anything.
My child's school uses the 1-4 system but the way they define the numbers is a bit different.
1 is does not meet NYS standards for ____ grade
2 meets some NYS standards for _____ grade
3 meets all NYS standards for ______ grade
4 exceeds all NYS standards for _____ grade
Each area math, science, reading, etc... Is broken down into the skills they need to achieve that year. So reading in kindergarten may be:
Recognizes all upper case letters - followed by a number.
Recognizes all lower case letters - followed by a number
Can phonetically sound all letters - followed by a number
etc...
It works for us. I like it better than the letter grades my daughter gets in 5th grade. Reading - A. Means nothing to me. Seeing it broken down by each skill they need to attain makes much more sense to me.
Hope this helps some.
Sounds like a joke to me, too.
So you're going to tell a kid who comes out of the blocks knowing the material (Scoring 90% or better on tests and quizzes), that he only gets a 2. Then, later on in the year, when he is still scoring 90%+, that he suddenly gets a 4? That makes no sense at all, except that it prevents parents of other students from facing the fact that their child may need an extra push to catch up on things.
"It's okay Mr. & Mrs. Sally. As you can see the best student in the class only got a 2, so Sally is not too far behind with her 1."
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Ok, for those whose kids are graded by 1 - 4, what is on their tests? You have 10 questions for spelling, 10 points each, a perfect test is 100? Do you get numbers on it?
I mean if you get 100 on a test then you know how your child is doing
Ok, for those whose kids are graded by 1 - 4, what is on their tests? You have 10 questions for spelling, 10 points each, a perfect test is 100? Do you get numbers on it?
I mean if you get 100 on a test then you know how your child is doing
