Posted on 01/28/2015 8:12:27 PM PST by Steelfish
Grit And Gratitude Join Reading, Writing And Arithmetic On Report Cards BY LORETTA KALBLKALB 01/27/2015
Outside Harry Dewey Fundamental Elementary School in Fair Oaks, Amanda Christensen recalled the first time she saw the detailed report card for her three children.
“At first it was very complicated,” Christensen said. “You see all these new things and you don’t understand quite what they mean.”
Case in point: Her kids are now graded on their level of grit.
“What does my child have to do to get a grade in that?” she wondered.
Across the state, report cards are undergoing a sea change in how students are measured for academic performance. Where teachers once graded students on traditional math or English skills, they now judge attributes such as grit, gratitude or being sensitive to others.
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Back in my day we only had Cream of Wheat on my report card!
Johnny can’t read or write so they need some subjective scores to make the report cards look good
All white kids get 5% marked off, and all white boys get another 5% down. How can you prove otherwise? These grades are totally subjective and made up by their leftist teachers.
Rote learning gets a bad rap from educationists who do not know how to think.
If you can't memorize it is very hard to know when you are thinking critically.
The people pushing this crap are the type of people we see on Jimmy Kimmel being interviewed on the street and proving themselves to be real idiots even though they went to college.
Gratitude to whom? And, if a kid rejects state controls and stands up for the right, will they award ‘grit’ points or find him anti-social and mark him for a tire factory or a labor camp?
How do you think she pronounces that?
In elementary school back in the ‘60s, we not only got a letter grade in every subject, we were also graded 1 to 3 on “effort” for each subject.
That doesn’t sound to different from “grit” to me.
Very perspicacious.
*too*
Any bids on when schools will start grading sexual performance? I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re trying to figure out a way to do just that, now.
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I don’t know how the concept of “grit” is being used here. However, the concept is a legitimate one, and can be useful in education.
Identifying who succeeds as a result of persistent effort, and why they make those efforts is valuable. Encouraging students to emulate the thought processes and behaviors of students with grit increases success in school (and in life, in general).
Oh, please. Do you really expect it to work that way? Seriously??
Here’s a clue — Doudenal and Lakisha La La La get A’s for not snitching on Dwantrell who just shanked Dwight. As Dwight bleeds out on the front lawn awaiting an amberlamps, the school celebrates its commitment to diversity.
I didn't suggest that this article describes an appropriate way of using the concept of “grit” in education, but rather that it is, nonetheless, a valid concept that can, and is used well in some places.
I work with a high school where teachers and administrators use the concept. But no one gives students “grades” for grit, and in fact, teachers and administrators don't generally talk to the students about it. Nonetheless, it's a personal attribute that can be identified, evaluated, and encouraged.
There was a pretty good popular treatment of “grit” in a Forbes article a while back, giving a general idea of what it is and why it's important.
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