Interesting. I don't know or know that I'd go for all out abolishment. I'm not sure that it's the grading so much as the.. sorry, I'm stumbling here. We need, I think, to distinquish those that excel in particular areas such as math, science, literature, whatever but by the grading, or down-grading, of students who are not adept in the areas taught in school but who have valuable skills at which they excel we often leave them with the feeling that their skills don't count, that they are stupid. I see a lot of that around here with kids who struggle in school but are wonderful carpenters, horsefolk, and such. But often they feel squashed and are looked at as failures.
So a lot of blather there and no answer. <g> |
