It's Time To Eliminate Letter Grades In School

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Eliminate Letter Grades Have you ever gotten a “bad” grade in a class, but did the best you could? This is a very common scenario that most children encounter. More than half of a student body have been pressured by teacher or guardians to increase their grade in certain classes. Except, in the end students lose interest in school and learning all together. All of this is a chain reaction due to student's work ethic being labeled with a letter grade. Schools should eliminate letter grades because it’s in the student’s best interest and it’s also a tremendous stress reliever. To begin with, eliminating letter grades is the first step in the right direction to protect children's passions. Without letter grades, more and more students will …show more content…

According to Dr. Jim Robinson whenever you’re stressed your brain has a hard time processing any other material than whatever you're stressed about. Schools not using letter grades can protect their community’s mental health by just one change. Whether we like it or not children in middle and high school are labeled. No one likes to be labeled by something they know isn’t true. If teachers let students know what they feel their students are good at, and what needs some work it’ll be easy to find students true selves without having anxiety of being labeled with a letter (Thomsen). Some students have an obsessive need to be the best at everything they do and need to get the best grade. While doing this, they are putting a barricade on their learning path. One way to be on top is to rush through your work and not fully understand the concept just to get the satisfaction they need. Without letter grades on the other hand, students will finally realize that there is no race to success. The only person they’ll be trying to beat is themselves (Belkin). When schools don’t have letter grades teachers would be able to make sure their students work load is for their abilities, and there’s nothing that they’re not capable of doing. Many teenagers are prone to sleep loss and inconsistent sleeping schedules because of loads of homework which may take a while to understand if you’re not at that level yet. Research shows some students take longer than others to grasp and fully understand the lesson they are learning. If students manage time better and keep up with their school work, many will gain more sleep which adolescents need to thrive, which narrative grades will provide (“8 Pros and Cons”). Many children will notice the difference in their mental

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