I feel your pain, something similar just happened to my DD8. She is in 3rd grade and got all perfect scores (they don't use grades so I just call them perfect since she got the highest marks) in all areas that are academic but when it came to the "Social" section, she got marked down 1 rank/grade for "talks too much" and she got marked down 2 ranks/grades for "organization" ... No explanation for either. I talked to my DD about it and she said at the beginning of the year she was too talkative, but she was reprimanded for it and has been working on it since then. She had no clue what the organization was for, so I made her write her teacher a note to ask. IMHO, it is a teacher failure to provide a low mark without some type of constructive criticism to help the student identify the area of weakness to set goals to improve upon. Her teacher told her she kept a messy desk ... so yea, in our school, they get marked down for keeping a messy desk. Now,in the teacher's defense, I am CERTAIN she keeps a messy desk because she can be quite a slob about her own desk at home. It just caught me off guard, since she remembers her homework every day, gets her day planner signed every day, hands all her work in on time, has the proper attire at school for the weather outside, etc... I just figured THOSE were the things that being organized was all about. However, I supported the teacher and had a talk with my daughter, because it does her no favors in life to not learn how to hear and process constructive criticism. She told me two days ago she couldn't find her take home folder so I had her go to school and clean her desk yesterday and lo and behold, she found it. Hoping next report card will show an improvement!
