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Originally Posted by Mikoyan
The only people this sets off are the ones that don't have the cognitive ability to reframe the evaluation into a simplistic frame of context they understand.
D = Emerging
C = Developing
B = Proficient
A = Extending
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That's not really quite it though. It makes more sense if think relative to the grade curriculum, where 100% means your kid is tracking the curriculum, that's "Proficient". "Extending" would be >100%, ie your kid is demonstrating beyond the curriculum.
For example my kid got an "Extending" in reading because he's already reading at grade 3 level at mid-grade 2.
I don't know how this is hard to understand. Nor how it "sugarcoats" anything
The letter grade system is more ambiguous. He'd get an "A" but what does that mean exactly? It doesn't convey that he's doing better than curriculum taught.