grades

just a few minutes before i have to leave for work...one thing that has struck me about this job is that i am rated (monitored, graded, evaluated) every single shift. i haven't been graded for twenty years and it hasn't gotten any more fun. of course, i understand that it is the only way for them to maintain any kind of quality across all of the hundreds of us on calls, but it is still tough. so far, i've done really well- i've been told that anything over 90 is good and i've always been over 90 (almost. once i got an 84. ), but when it is in the lower 90s, i always get the discussion. what i'm doing wrong, what i should be doing instead, etc. it totally affects my entire day. i am so thankful that one aspect of the school that we have chosen for lu is that she isn't graded. of course, she is still evaluated and she is told when she gets things wrong and all, but the numeric value isn't there. she is allowed to just be herself and do her thing with out being compared to her peers and rated on a scale. i think that if adults were subjected to the kind of monitoring that i am at work every day, we as a society, would have a much bigger problem with grades.

thats all.