<p>We the students become fixated on the highest grade, no matter whether it’s a 4 or an A or a an S or an E, whatever. We see A’s on TV so we all still know what it means. When I left my elementary school and went to high school, I expected to get all As even though, coming from a Montessori school where I received E, S, or U and the main concentration was on the teacher’s written review, I had never seen an A on a report card in my life.
Number systems and letter systems are all the same. We all know what it really means.</p>