The Teacher is Talking: Report Cards…Gasp!
By Leslie Lindsay Those report cards are out…or coming soon, right? And you’ve got questions. What does an E mean? Is that the new A? And if so, does an F mean a B…that is, if we are going in alphabetical order. But we’re not. When I was a kid, the grading scale was a bit different. It was something like K thru 2nd grade got S’s and O’s meaning “satisfactory” and “outstanding,” respectively. If you got an “N” you were in deep doo-doo; that meant, “needs improvement.” An “N” was a bad word around our school. By the time students reached 3rd grade and beyond, it was all about the traditional A’s and B’s. So, how does a parent makes heads or tails of this crazy new grading system? For example, my little nugget (1st grade) came home with some “D’s” and “S’s”. A “D?!!” What…not my kid! But a “D” means “developing.” It’s not exactly “bad,” per se. It’s somewhere in the middle of the grading scale, like a “B” perhaps. An “S” is …
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