Reporting on Report Cards
My First & Second Grade Report Cards " Why don't you just give them all A's !" shouted my daughter this afternoon! It never fails...I hear the same request from either my sister, mother, husband, cousin, friend, neighbor, or local teen every time I sit down to spend the day to write out my students' report cards. Do they really all think that teachers just ' GIVE ' grades based on some nebulous reason? Don't they understand that teachers work long hours finding sums and averages based on the student's assessments? Or don't they realize that hours are spent filling in checklists based on whether the student has completed the standards set by the state? The business of report cards is a touchy subject at best. When mentioned in most any setting it brings recounts of days gone by. "Do you remember when I locked myself in the bathroom and wouldn't come out? How I shoved my report card under the door for mom and dad?" my sist...