Mommy Grades! What Good Are They?

They are a LOT of good!  Just because you don’t give tests doesn’t mean you don’t evaluate your children!  Give an accurate and full representation of what your “mommy grade” contains, and those grades can really count.  In our homeschool, we did about 1/2 our subjects the traditional textbookish way.  In fact, we only used tests for math, science and foreign language – and we only did tests in those subjects because the curriculum CAME with tests.  The other part of our school was not graded with tests.  I gave grades based on what they did, what they knew, and what they produced, instead.  I put those “mommy grades” proudly on my transcript!  Do you know what happened with those mommy grades?  My children were accepted to all four colleges they applied to.  My children were given good scholarships even to selective schools.  My children were given full tuition scholarships to their first choice university – that’s what happened!

The colleges could see that the mommy grades were most likely accurate, because we had good SAT scores. We also had CLEP exam scores to document some of the other subjects. You don’t have to change how you school your children or spend a lot of money to get grades made by someone else.  You can display  your mommy grades proudly!

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