So, my younger sister (she's in 3rd grade) came home with her report card today. Instead of normal letter grades, it's a bunch of O's. I'm like, what the heck? Instead of A, B, C, D, or F, they've started with this scale:

F 59 and below O outstanding S satisfactory N needs improvement

Out of eleven different subjects, she only gets a normal letter grade for four of them. What the heck? This just bugs me. :( Any other schools started this?

In georgia they are trying to adopt the 123 system

....its like ABC but with numbers...

they are going to waste millions to change practically nothing.. lame

I think it's kind of a lazy way out, so that they don't have to do the percentages and whatnot. I don't know it just bugs me...

I know that when I was in grades K-6, we would recieve A-R* grades... but in a section in the bottom, there would be things like Attentive in class, being helpful, etc. And we would get 'E'(excellent), 'S'(satisfactory), or 'N'(needs improvement) But now we just get percentages.. Actually, I think we still get the E, S and N thing.
* A-R just means A, B, C, D, R. Like an F; but in Canada, it's an R.

These kids are actually getting o's and such in things like history and science. ^_^;

i had that in elementary school! except without the "f", it was just "o", "s", and "n". it stops after second grade where i live though, then from 3rd grade-on you get the usual a-f.

I never went to a school that graded like that. That's weirdO.O

Since last year, we've had A, B, C, D, E, and then effort grades (1-5, 1 being best effort). I managed an A4 in Latin this term... In Maths, we have

E -excellent VG -very good G -good S -satisfactory P -poor U -unsatisfactory

:/

Is it not just because she's young? Maybe they don't want to put pressure on young kids by saying oh you got an F you're not smart, instead they're praising effort.

I'm in sixth form and i get the usual grades A-U, but the teachers also mark my effort in terms of Outstanding etc. Maybe they'll bring in grades at a higher age?

All of the elementary schools in the school system here do that. I grew up with it, so I never really noticed that it was different.

I wish my college graded like that XD

Hmm... interesting, I never thought of it that way. But what about next year? What will they do, will they keep with it or slowly do away with it?

We have A-F and E-U. E is for Excellent, then G for Good, then N for Not Acceptable and U for Unsatisfactory :S

Here in Portugal in middle school you get 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5, being 1 lower and 5 higher. In highschool, it's the same but from 1 to 20.

I had those in elementary school, but now that I'm in middle school/going to start highschool, we're using the A-F system.

I live in Michigan, btw.

In N.Y.'s elementary school they do a 1 through 4 thing, one being the lowest.

They do regular grades (percentages) in the middle and high schools. Not A, B, C, D, F.

I used the A-F system in Elementary... I don't really understand the whole 'outstanding' 'needs improvement' system. :I

The only year we didn't have A-F was kindergarten. That sounds like a weird grading scale.

Our A-F system is actually based on percentages.

At my school, this is our system:

92-100 - A 83-91 - B 74-82 - C 65-73 - D 64 and below - F

In elementary school. it was number ranked 1- fail 4- the best

now it's in percentage. 50-60- D 60-70- C 70-80- B 80-100- A :P

It might be because she's in elementary school? I think my grades were similar until like... 2nd grade or something like that? Maybe. It seems so long ago. But it's really not THAT far back. d: