Comments on: Report Card Time http://tweenbeat.onslow.org/tweenbeat/2010/02/report-card-time/ Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:37:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: onslow county schools - StartTags.com http://tweenbeat.onslow.org/tweenbeat/2010/02/report-card-time/comment-page-1/#comment-1074 onslow county schools - StartTags.com Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:11:18 +0000 http://tweenbeat.onslow.org/tweenbeat/?p=1304#comment-1074 [...] according to information from Onslow County Schools. ....Board of Education to meet Tuesday...Report Card Time | TweenBeatFriday my boys came home with their reports cards. No more preschool conferences to go over ABCs and [...]

[...] according to information from Onslow County Schools. ….Board of Education to meet Tuesday…Report Card Time | TweenBeatFriday my boys came home with their reports cards. No more preschool conferences to go over ABCs and [...]

]]> By: Thomas Brock http://tweenbeat.onslow.org/tweenbeat/2010/02/report-card-time/comment-page-1/#comment-674 Thomas Brock Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:00:43 +0000 http://tweenbeat.onslow.org/tweenbeat/?p=1304#comment-674 The only surprises I get from Mini's report cards are the not-really-that-surprising-surprises. I know she sometimes talks in class and her handwriting is bad. I can live with both, as she's almost always on the honor roll. I don't think the report cards portray what a child knows or doesn't know...But I have issues with the way schools (NC and Onslow County in particular) do things. Teaching for an end-of-grade test really doesn't do much to prepare children for being adults or furthering their education. And I'm really not a fan of changing math "problems" to math "facts" because Mini has enough trouble with problem solving in general. Taking away the skills to work through a math problem by replacing them with "facts" doesn't really help her much! The only surprises I get from Mini’s report cards are the not-really-that-surprising-surprises. I know she sometimes talks in class and her handwriting is bad. I can live with both, as she’s almost always on the honor roll.

I don’t think the report cards portray what a child knows or doesn’t know…But I have issues with the way schools (NC and Onslow County in particular) do things. Teaching for an end-of-grade test really doesn’t do much to prepare children for being adults or furthering their education.

And I’m really not a fan of changing math “problems” to math “facts” because Mini has enough trouble with problem solving in general. Taking away the skills to work through a math problem by replacing them with “facts” doesn’t really help her much!

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