I’m a graduate student at UT Austin, but taught elementary Art in Ohio for five years. The district next to our’s went through a painful process of getting community support to abolish letter grades on report cards… and did it. The community was at first angry and divided- and after a few years came to use it as a selling point for their school district. It was classic Gandhi: “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, they they fight you, then you win.”

I thought I would comment to say that this kind of thing is rare, but is starting to happen… a pep talk before plunging into the cold black sea.