Comments on: On the evolution of report cards https://thenewneo.com/2020/02/15/on-the-evolution-of-report-cards/ A blog about political change, among other things Mon, 17 Feb 2020 18:58:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Richard Saunders https://thenewneo.com/2020/02/15/on-the-evolution-of-report-cards/#comment-2480729 Mon, 17 Feb 2020 18:58:54 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=93285#comment-2480729 I got a hell of a lot of “NIs” in elementary school, and I can assure you my parents knew exactly what that meant!

]]> By: NewYorkCentral https://thenewneo.com/2020/02/15/on-the-evolution-of-report-cards/#comment-2480724 Mon, 17 Feb 2020 14:01:57 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=93285#comment-2480724 Attended NYS public schools in the 80’s and early 90’s – we had the same 1-4 scale that Fractal Rabbit described, though I remember going to numerical percent grades once we hit 7th grade – e.g., 95% rather than A – for academic classes.

]]> By: expat https://thenewneo.com/2020/02/15/on-the-evolution-of-report-cards/#comment-2480723 Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:58:14 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=93285#comment-2480723 This is totally OT, but if anyone wants a torough picture of what is happening in German politics, Der Spiegel does a good job. It’s long.

https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/the-race-to-succeed-merkel-germany-s-conservatives-face-a-fight-for-their-future-a-e781c480-4f5f-4a9a-821f-b8954a314930

Btw, I support Merz, but he won’t get fair coverage by the media.

]]> By: charles https://thenewneo.com/2020/02/15/on-the-evolution-of-report-cards/#comment-2480714 Mon, 17 Feb 2020 03:31:58 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=93285#comment-2480714 Oh boy, I remember report cards with that kind of grading system. I also remember that we had to get them signed by our parents and returned them to school.

I never had to fake a parent’s signature; but, I do remember the nuns calling out – in front of the whole class! – those that tried to forge a parent’s signature. They never tried it more than once.

]]> By: Estoy Listo https://thenewneo.com/2020/02/15/on-the-evolution-of-report-cards/#comment-2480707 Mon, 17 Feb 2020 00:19:38 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=93285#comment-2480707 I’m reminded of my own St. Paul Catholic school report card of the 50’s. I aced posture–unusual for a boy–but my penmanship was never better than a gentleman’s S, and for that I struggled.

]]> By: stu https://thenewneo.com/2020/02/15/on-the-evolution-of-report-cards/#comment-2480705 Sun, 16 Feb 2020 23:30:55 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=93285#comment-2480705 In the 3rd grade I received a U in conduct. You can figure out what that meant. I spent a fair amount of time in the principal’s office. Looking back, I think my father’s debilitating illness (MS) must have played a role in my acting out.

]]> By: Ackler https://thenewneo.com/2020/02/15/on-the-evolution-of-report-cards/#comment-2480704 Sun, 16 Feb 2020 23:13:21 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=93285#comment-2480704 I went to elementary School in Madison, Wisconsin in the early 80s. Our “grades” went as follows:

S – “Strength” in the area
P – “Progress” in the area
W- “Weakness” in the area
I- “Improvement” needed in the area.

Needless to say, I would have preferred traditional grades. That did not come until middle school.

]]> By: steve walsh https://thenewneo.com/2020/02/15/on-the-evolution-of-report-cards/#comment-2480702 Sun, 16 Feb 2020 22:57:09 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=93285#comment-2480702 My report cards from St. Mary’s (Catholic school, Sisters of St. Joseph) were delivered with identical assessments. There was also a sentence or two about me as a student. This was grade 1 through 8; fall of 1963 through spring of 1971.

]]> By: Fractal Rabbit https://thenewneo.com/2020/02/15/on-the-evolution-of-report-cards/#comment-2480701 Sun, 16 Feb 2020 22:56:52 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=93285#comment-2480701 In NYS, in the 80s, in the High Peaks region of the Adirondacks near Lake Placid*, my small school district used 4,3,2,1 (4 being Outstanding and 1 being Failure) until we got to 9th grade. At 9th we switched to the A,B,C,D,F system.

*I had relatives who went to school in Lake Placid and were able to watch the ’80 Miracle on Ice while in school. The hockey rink is connected to the school and is used today by the regions youth hockey leagues.

]]> By: Cornhead https://thenewneo.com/2020/02/15/on-the-evolution-of-report-cards/#comment-2480694 Sun, 16 Feb 2020 21:19:39 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=93285#comment-2480694 In high school and law school it was number grades which are more precise than letters. The law school profs were tough graders.

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