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Dh and I met with an insurance agent this weekend and we were speaking of when ds, now 14, starts to drive. When the agent asked his grades I guessed at a 4.0  I don't keep grades.
How do you work with the needs for report cards? Start keeping grades? Guess? I am feeling very scared about high school and transcripts and all and these types of things make me very nervous.
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I don't keep any grades for K - 8, EXCEPT in the case of maybe math. It's easy enough to do though, if you are required, or find a need. Just assign them! You know the kind of effort and work done - be honest and give it a grade.
For high school, all my daughter's classes are for high school credit, and though our high school work doesn't resemble "traditional" high school lecture/class work, I want her high school transcript to look "traditional." So, I give her classes grades. If you're nervous about that, try coming up with a simple rubric to help you with some guidelines and give your son clear expectations for his class. This can help you give a just and honest grade to his work. Here is a tutorial which is pretty simple on how to build your own rubric.
Oh...and by the time your son IS eligible for his learners permit at 15, a year will have passed (unless he's turning 15 in a month...is he?) He'll be older and in a different grade (possibly high school?), so this gives you up to a year to comfortably and gently figure out an approach to grading that makes sense to you and satisfies a need for a number grade.
Isn't it crazy how fast they're growing up????? Bittersweet.  and  ....but mostly !!!
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A few more rubric guides in case you're interested:
University of Minnesota: Creating Rubrics
This example is meant to grade writing/comp
And, in case you'd like to build one, but you wouldn't have a clue how to format, and you might not have the tools to do that anyway on your home computer, no problem!! RubiStar is a free site that is all set up to walk you through building a rubric which is specific to your student, your class, your expectations, and then lets you save and print. Just keep it in your home ed notebook and use it to help you evaluate a class so that you'll have more confidence in assigning a grade. You might also want to give a copy to your student, or hang it near their workspace so that they can see clearly what expectations are.
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Thanks, Jen. I don't have the time right now, but I will be reading these in the very near future.
And he just turned 14, but will probably turn 15 tomorrow 
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