Kids and Grades

Send us Fan MailIn this episode, I talk about what it means when kids are totally focused on their grades- where that comes from and what we might do about it.Let’s start with the core problems with grading systems.  Grading systems can make the teacher/student relationship ugly.  As I have shared before, the teacher/student relationship should be about something important- something to be taught and learned that has value for both the teacher and the student.  Grades are not that.  The more time wrestling with grades is time not spent wrestling with good things worth learning.