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Originally Posted by Clodfobble
My kids' report cards don't have grades on them. What they mark is whether the child is proficient in a specific skill--not just "math," but multiplication vs. division, etc. They have to take the state tests by law, but they ignore them as much as they can; it's just a thing they do one day then they go right back to their own curriculum.* And they tell prospective families at application information meetings, "if standardized test scores at the elementary level are important to you, do not come here, because our lower elementary students do not perform as well. However, by the time our students are at the high school level, they are far, far outperforming their peers, because the only thing their peers ever learned was how to take a test."
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This was our K-8 school too. last one about to graduate 8th grade. My two highschoolers have 3.9+ GPAs so it seems like no standardized testing and no grades to compare between students until high school hasn't harmed them.
The focus on each report was skills acquired, skills needing work and individual improvement between assessments