American schools are slowly moving away from the traditional report card, two Columbia University Professors reported last week. Some schools are either sending letters to the parents or are providing conferences between teachers and parents rather than asking Junior to carry home his sometimes awful grade card. But despite the trend, 93 per cent of the nation’s communities, including Middletown, still use the cards which tell parents, A, B, C, D or F and little else about their children. Wade E. Miller, superintendent of the city's schools, feels that the grade card system is far from ideal. "Many a child's life has been blighted by grades.” Miller says. But change is almost impossible. The public and the colleges demand grades, and there is as yet, no practical system read to put in the grade cards' place, Miller says...

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