The method takes a positive approach to the rating of compositions by asking the reader to concentrate on what the student has accomplished rather than on what the student has failed to do or has done badly. Holistic scoring is both efficient and accurate. In a few years, we'll hear that the writing crisis, if indeed there ever was one, is over. To fuss about organization, punctuation, diction, and spelling is the bad old negative approach that caused the whole flap to begin with. Schools do not fail.
Children always learn in school.
Always and every day. They learn that mistakes bring no consequences. They learn that their teachers were only pretending in all those lessons on spelling and punctuation. They learn that there are no rewards for good work, and that they who run the race all win. They learn that what they win is a rubber-stamped smiling face, exactly as valuable as what they might lose, which is nothing, nothing at all.