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Brentwood parents press board to review competency-based report cards; committee to convene
Summary
A parent described how the district's competency-based elementary report cards affected her daughter's confidence and learning path. Board and SAU leaders agreed to gather stakeholder input and to form a report-card committee after the first trimester.
A Brentwood parent told the school board on Wednesday that the district's competency-based elementary report cards left her child unsure of her abilities and later under-motivated in middle school, prompting the board and SAU officials to agree to broaden stakeholder review.
Elizabeth Melendi Tillinghast, a Brentwood parent and pediatrician, said her daughter — part of the first Swayze class to use competency-based reporting — “never received an EL in math in elementary school” yet, after summer testing, was placed into accelerated sixth-grade math and finished the year with consecutive trimester grades of 93. “For the final 2 trimesters, she earned a 93 in each of those trimesters,” Tillinghast said, adding that numerical grades gave her family…
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