Today's Guest blog is written by Starr Sackstein. Starr is a Nationally Board Certified Teacher in New York City and the author of Teaching Mythology Exposed.

There is a palpable anxiety mounting. Report cards are coming and students are wondering "What am I going to get?" Rather than a confident awareness of learning, students believe they sit at the mercy of their teachers who seem to arbitrarily assign letters or numbers to their names with little regard for learning.

Perhaps based on how much teachers like them or how well they 'play the game', adolescents fail to comprehend that their grades are actually supposed to convey a level of proficiency in specific subject matter.

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