Should We Abolish Grading

   Abolishing grading can either be beneficial or substandard.  Grading is an option for schools to predict what a student would make on a test or should we forget about grading and continue ahead with standardized testing.

  Students across the country would agree to abolish grading for lagging reasons such as being lazy or apathetic. I personally think that grading should stay in the schools. When we begin school learning should occur naturally. Students choose if they are willing to learn or if they want to place restrictions on their education.

  Every school has an academic standard. Usually test determine if a student is performing well in school. Meanwhile I depend on my grading and academic scores to see how well I am carrying out. I use my grades as an guide to improve my scores. For most people grading is basically a waist of time; in the future schools are most likely to leer into our test scores.

  Schools across the nation only look at test scores. Ivy League schools have a reputation to withhold and a real academic student would have an outstanding test score, but for me I have to better my testing skillsin order to improve my testing scores. I have the grades of a semi genius but when I take test I tend to perform on a proficient level rather than advanced.

  After reading " A Proposal to Abolish Grading," by Paul Goodman, I've learned so many different perspectives of  the subject. For instance some think that grading is nullifying the various use of testing. Paul Goodman stated that "testing for student and teacher would mean structuring and finding the weakness in the student." This could definitely be taken for granted. In my opinion this is very unfair. A child should be tested on the ability of improvement not the mistakes on a test. this will only make the situation for the student worse because they would feel like giving up and think that the test is worthless , so what would be the point for grading .

  This may be a hard decision but it takes deep thinking and we have to think about the future and what it would be like for others if grading was really ABOLISHED.