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Remember when grades were posted?

AuntG — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 12:20:36 GMT

No doubt this practice has stopped, but I remember that in middle school, teachers would post our test grades outside their door. So many kids wanted to know how they scored on tests and the teachers said it was easier to post the results rather than having kids coming in and asking their grade. Frankly, I never thought about it much, and because I was a pretty good student, I wasn't worried I'd be at the bottom of the list. Looking back, I can see that this was not a good practice. Do any of you remember teachers doing this?

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sunshine45 — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 12:23:51 GMT

interesting......no, this was not done in our schools.

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brii — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 12:24:15 GMT

I've never heard of that.

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violann — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 14:46:32 GMT

It was done when I was in college, but we didn't even have an honor roll when we were in HS or grade school.

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missy1 — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 14:54:04 GMT

In college, the grades were posted by my school id number only. My kids grades are online, so no need to post. Teachers will tell the class the class grade average. Also, they will generally speak and say: like 16 out of 30 are failing this high school class. Many schools still post names /teachers on which your kid has for the new school year.

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lulu2 — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 15:11:04 GMT

In high school and college our final exam grades as well as course grades were posted. Sometimes it was by initials, sometimes by roster number and sometimes by name.

In elementary school our tests were handed out from top to bottom. The teacher would call out the A's, the B's, etc.

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Cakers1 — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 18:19:03 GMT

Never had grades posted until undergrad college.

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Lila Belle — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 18:21:19 GMT

We had exam grades posted by # outside the classroom door in high school. In college it was done online.

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MomOf4 — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 18:27:17 GMT

It only happened to us in college.

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Lucky Charm — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 18:53:20 GMT

I remember my neighbor bragging incessantly that his son was in the top ten of our youngest son's class. I never doubted him. Our son was, but I never mentioned it to him.

After the baccalaureate Mass, they had a reception at the school and the class rankings were posted in the foyer.

I glanced at the list and saw his son was fourteenth from the bottom.

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muttmom — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 19:15:48 GMT

I remember it well. Our teachers claimed it gave us an incentive to do better.

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straykatz — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 19:51:44 GMT

My high school publically announced the honor students names over the loud speaker when doing school wide announcements.

Most teachers handed out test results/papers in grade order from highest to lowest. The other teaches handed out results in alphabetical order.

We were also assigned classes depending on grade average - example: the smartest kids were in 8A or 8B depending....C students (average) were all in 8C through 8H....and below average D/F students were in the last alpha numeral classes. Special needs or those with learning disabilities and behavior problems were all in their own class (generally a much smaller class where the teacher to student ratio was very low and it allowed for more one to one teacher student time.

That was a long time ago.....a lot has changed since my high school days.

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Kalli — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 19:59:09 GMT

In college, our grades for each class were posted on the door where that particular class took place. And they were posted by SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS!!! Our SS #s were our school IDs.

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SoX — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 20:30:16 GMT

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