Grading System

Grades are very important in schools today. The purpose of grades is to show students how they are doing in school. If they didn't have a number grading system, teachers would be subjective, personal opinion,  rather than objective, fact based. Scores are based off of 100% because it is easy to convert to and from a fraction. To some students, grade are their entire lives. To others, it is just a number. This does nothing to prove how well we are at something. All we do is answer questions on paper. There are no questions that test our actual intelligence and creativity. There are no questions that say "If you were alone on an island, how would you survive?" We should combine both grading systems. The numbers that we are assigned on Powerschool mean nothing. If it only said "Proficient", how are we to know exactly what score we got? That could be a large range of numbers. If both are combined, we can see exactly what we need improvement on and what we are excelling in.