I am interested in knowing, for those of you who are in a middle school, if you are
required to give report card grades for "Library". I did find information on this
in the archives, but it dates back to 1999 and didn't mention grade levels.
I am required to give NUMBER grades to 5th through 8th graders. This year there
were quite a lot of kids who got 60s (I've even given out Zeros!). Only a handful
of parents ever question it, which is pretty much indicative of the general
attitude "it's only library". It does keep them off the honor role if the grade is
a 70 or 75 or something like that... which some of them care about.
The teachers are with me in wanting to drop the structured library classes and
grades in favor of working together on collaborative projects which would receive a
subject (not "library") grade. The new principal is with us on this. We just have
to convince the curriculum supervisor and overcome the argument that "the report
cards have already been printed, and there is a place for a library grade."
Anyway, let me know what grades you teach, if you have to do report card grades or
not, and I will post a tally later on in the week. I'm just thinking this can't be
a normal thing for middle school!
Thanks!
Shayne Russell
Library Media Specialist
Kenneth R. Olson Middle School
Tabernacle, NJ
s.russell@earthlink.net
http://inforetriever.net
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