SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California students are being graded on “grit,” “gratitude,” their sensitivity toward others and other personality traits with new Common Core-aligned report cards.

Schools across the state are reworking student report cards to better align with Common Core’s stated focus on critical thinking and analysis by expanding current measures to include the more subjective attributes, The Sacramento Bee reports.

Fair Oaks schools, for example, are using two different grading scales, one for academics and another for their personality traits.

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“For those traditional academic subjects, teachers grade students on a 1-to-4 scale. But when it comes to attributes such as grit or being sensitive to others, they give students one of four marks: A for almost always, O for often, S for sometimes and R for rarely,” according to the news site.

“The first report cards went home in November at 11 elementary schools in the (Fair Oaks) district; full implementation is scheduled for the fall.”

Parent Amanda Christensen told the Bee the report cards are confusing.

“At first it was very complicated,” she said. “You see all these new things and you don’t quite understand what they mean,” such as a grade for grit.

“What does my child have to do to get a grade in that?”

Christenson, a mother of three in Fair Oaks, likely isn’t the only parent scratching their head.

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The Sacramento City Unified School District are testing out similar report cards at all its elementary schools this year, as well. There, faculty and parents worked to draft measurements for “behaviors that support learning,” and grade students on a scale of “outstanding” to “needs improvement,” the Bee reports.

Folsom Cordova Unified schools also implemented report cards last year that ask teachers to gauge students’ respectfulness under the heading “lifelong learning skills.”

At Del Dayo Elementary School – a San Juan Unified school testing new report cards – parent teacher organization president Dianne Tully is a big advocate of the more complicated process.

“Before, it was a general grade on citizenship,” she told the Bee. “Here, if you know they’re getting high marks for grit and perseverance but not gratitude, as a parent you’re getting better information.”

The revised report cards are also not only assessing new criteria, but also more aspects of traditional subjects.

“In English language arts, third-grade teachers evaluate students in at least a half-dozen areas including complexity of text, story structure, types of writing and presentation of knowledge,” according to the news site. “In math, teachers grade for algebraic thinking, problem solving and geometric measurement, among other categories.”

In San Juan schools, the grades for those categories also come with one of three progress assessments: E for exceeding expectations, M for meeting expectations, and L for limited progress.

American Thinker shot down California’s revamped student report cards as a stupid idea that will undoubtedly negatively impact students with a more conservative upbringing.

“Obviously, there are no objective standards possible, so teachers will subjectively evaluate students on these qualities. And human nature being what it is, the degree to which a child conforms to the teacher’s own vision of human nature and the correct viewpoint,” according to the news site.

“Education schools and teachers unions are both strongholds of left wing thinking, so it is fully predictable that children from conservative households will be regarded as uncooperative, insensitive, and ungrateful.”