When did the grade numbers change?

[jill]

I remember 65 was a D and 70's were C's and 80's were B's and 90-100 being A's. So when I saw my girls report card I saw 83-84's and one 75 for math (biggest struggle) and thought wow smart she is doing well.

The rude awakening it has changed I was enlightened 75 is now a D and 80'-85 is a C and 85 and 86-90 is a B and 90-100 still an A. So my girl has a C average and they said if she can focus better she would be doing better. When med adjustment was brought up by me the teacher and consultant teacher said to me"no do not do that we want her to be herself and do not want to see a dulled version of her for she is so sweet". That was nice to hear however the distractabiliy seems awfully high considering. I am planning to look for tutoring for math and request screening for LD in math for they agree she struggles to the point she refuses to do math even more. I am going to talk to her psychologist December 4th about everything and let him make the recommendations on what to do.

[lillian]

Here, 0-69 is an F, 70-74 is a D, 75-79 is a C, 80-89 is a B, and 90-100 is an A. I was pretty stunned that a 70-74 was a D, instead of a C, but I'm much more stunned that your daughter's school considers 80-85 a C!!! I've never heard of that before.

[katiekat]

Joseph's middle school is the same way as Jill's daughters. Your grade is not even an "A" here until a 92. His old school was the traditional way and it is hard to get used to.

[mary2]

In my country we have gone through many different grading systems, being the current one the worst of all. First (in my times), we were based in 20/20. Then the system changed to something similar to the US, that is A-B-C-D and F but also being based on 20/20. An "A" was for those getting 18-19- or 20; the rest had a letter set for each number. I liked that one.

Currently the grades are based in words such as "excellent", "very good", "good", and "needs to improve". I find it very frustrating because in order to get an excellent which is actually like an "A", the exams have to be perfect. My son brought home a math evaluation of about 20 additions, he got only one wrong, and his grade was "very good", not very motivating since the range from one grade to another is way too short.

[jill]

Everyone is in competition for who is smarter so they keep raising the standards and the kids feel the consequences and they wonder why the higher drop out rates. It is so un-just at times. They are pushing kids too much and do not get me started on the homework issue.