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Recently 34 elementary schools in surrey have made a shift to the new system. The new system lets parents and children how they are doing in class instead of bring a letter grade home; The new system is called constructive  feedback also more elementary schools are slowly joining into the new system.The reason is because they want the parents to have a better understanding where there child is at.

The idea of constructive feedback is that by offering more information about students projects and tasks, and focussing less on the superficial  “A,B or C” evaluation. Antonio Vendramin, principle of  George Vanier elementary school in surrey, says he appreciates that letter grades make it easy forparents to track their children’s progress – “It's an A, I know my kid is doing well”— but thinks they limit how students and parents interact over education.

So they are hoping that their removal  steers people into the constructive feedback instead or A,B or C.