Originally Posted by ElizabethN
The party line in our school district is that the kids are graded against the teacher's expectations for them. So if she is performing as well as the teacher thinks she possibly can, she gets a 3. If she were performing better than that, well, the teacher would have higher expectations of her, and she would still get a 3.

yikes - that would be a one-way ticket to apathy for my kid...

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