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This is nothing new, and just because there are no "grades" does not mean there will be no "standards" or "evaluation" of one's learning. Such a concept is well known amongst educators and based upon the pre-industrial revolutionary society education model. Ask yourself how it worked for the likes of a Thomas Jefferson and his peers...who never received grades as we know them today - either numerical or alphabetical.
There are many small private schools and public school districts throughout the country that use a common campus and shared spaces for students in grades 1-12. We did that and it worked exceptionally well by creating a more 'familial' atmosphere as the younger students looked up to the older students as role models and the older students worked with the younger students as student mentors.
As far as admission to schools of higher education, demonstrated performance (e.g., submission of work for evaluation), recommendations, interviews, and required admissions testing by the accepting institutions will remain the determinants just as they are now.
IOW - meh.
Richard
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“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” - To Kill A Mockingbird (Atticus Finch)
“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” - Robert Heinlein
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