““A report card is really tricky in our opinion, because you’re just looking at A’s and B’s and C’s,” Carpenter said. Nowhere on the report card does it say “what reading level your baby’s on, and that’s what’s throwing parents for a loop.”
If the scale were true, C should be at grade level. D you are falling behind.
D’s and F’s need parental intervention ASAP.
If you don’t know your kids intellect, emotional maturity, and problem solving skills, you ain’t much of a parent. That’s not the school’s job, it’s your job as a parent.
I’m a teacher and they can get up to date info immediately nowadays.
You have to know what is being taught in order to determine if the grade received is a good grade. Getting an A in socialism is still failure.
And who is to blame? Teachers.
I thought pretty much every school gave parents inline access to the work assigned as well as the grades where they can check daily if they wanted.
When I was in Fourth Grade, I hid my report card. My mother did not know it was reporting time (grades were okay, behavior was an issue). I might have gotten away with it if Mrs. Auster didn’t ask her about my grades. I went to school with her son Jacques.
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My grandkids must be the exception. Their report cards are stellar, they’ve both been identified as gifted, and their test scores show they’re above grade level in every subject. Of course, they go to a traditional charter school in Arizona (Legacy) which is known for its rigorous curriculum.
My daughter suffered.
I was getting a computer science degree at the same time she was learning in school.
After dinner when I was doing my homework, I made her do hers. Both of us at the same table.
I checked her work.
She’d have 100 arithmetic problems to solve.
I could easily see 3 to 4 wrong answers.
Computer science is mostly a mathematics discipline.
I would tell her how many wrong answers she had and ask her to correct them, but I would not tell her which ones were wrong. I also offered to explain things she didn’t understand.
She hated those few sessions, but she became a top student in arithmetic and math.
Too many parents don’t pay attention to the education of
their kids.
if you are not reading at grade level, you should be getting an F
same with all subjects.
compared to 40 years ago, A+ students are way behind
Huh? My mom got phone calls from the teachers and school if there was something off, so did I about my daughter.
Many, many parents pay $10,000+ per year for their retarded kids to go to “the best schools”. They expect A+ grades, so they get them, even when their little idiot is failing.
Pretty soon schools will not allow parents to know how their kids are doing. None of their business. Just keep paying school property taxes though, its not cheap to have PP and trannies keep shop in the school.