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 …