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Teachers present survey results to school board
By Harold Reutter
The Grand Island Independent
Posted Oct 09, 2008 @ 11:08 PM
GRAND ISLAND —
Ninth-grade students who are struggling academically are actually de-motivated by the traditional A, B, C, D and F system.
That's one of the findings that ninth-grade science teachers Jeff
Ehlers, Jolyne Westerby, Clark Plihal, Ruth McDonald and Jon Westerby
came up with by surveying 296 ninth-graders.
Ehlers, Jolyne Westerby and Plihal presented their survey results to the Grand Island school board Thursday evening.
Their survey results came from the bottom three quartiles of ninth-grade students.
A student who routinely gets A's and B's on a report card is usually
happy to see his or her achievements. A student who gets a "B" one
grading period may be motivated to try to get an "A" next time.
But Westerby said a struggling student sees a report card as just
another sign of failure and when it comes out, "they're not very happy
about it."
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