The “Water Cooler” is a feature on Claycord.com where we will ask you a question or provide a topic, and you will talk about it.
The “Water Cooler” will be up Monday-Friday at noon.
Today’s question:
Starting this fall, parents of elementary school students in the Manteca Unified School District will no longer see letter grades on their students’ report cards, according to the Stockton Record.
When parents receive their child’s next report card, rather than seeing traditional grades like A, B, C, D, and F, they will see words like “exceeded,” “proficient,” “approaching,” “beginning,” or “insufficient.”
QUESTION: Do you think this is a good idea, or a bad idea?
Talk about it….
Bad. It is a little woke. Difficult to be admitted to colleges with the new grading system
I’m okay with not using letter grades in K-5 schools.
However, the rubber hits the road (reality) in middle school.
At the end of the day, we need to know who needs help and who does not. Keep the standards high and work on helping those that need it. DO NOT bring the standards down.
I don’t have a problem with it, they’re using synonyms instead
of the letters.
Bad – otherwise it’s too ambiguous & subjective …. pluses and minuses are ok with letter grades though … like B+ or A-, etc.