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I remember elementary school report cards. It always felt like the grades were really arbitrary, and more or less said what the kid
did rather than what they got out of it. Biggest example: handwriting grades--it didn't matter that the letters were the right shape and that you were improving overall (which is the whole point--why teach handwriting except to develop it as a skill?), but if they squiggled even the slightest you automatically lost marks. (Of course now they're trying not to grade handwriting anymore because kids who can't write straight have "dysgraphia" and with a doctor's note can use laptops instead)
Feh, I'm still sore about it. I was always jealous of my sister; somehow I always ended up with at least one B somewhere or another, and she went second through eighth grade on perfect report cards. Damned handwriting...
I'm a lefty so I had chicken scratch for handwriting. I started school in the Philippines so the answer my parents found for the problem is to have the teacher who gave me lousy handwriting a summer tutoring in handwriting. Now has relly neat tiny asian handrwiting that most people can't read because it's tiny, lol
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