Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I have kids at Madison and was willing to give SBG a chance, but, when the grade book opened yesterday, a class our child had an A-/B+ in nearly all quarter in SIS suddenly reported as a D+. They got three poor grades at the beginning of Q2 (at which point we intervened and got them back on track), and those three grades were were about half of the ones that ended up counting as their quarter grade while about 20 other A/B grades they had in the book went to "not for grading".
I cannot see how this helps kids or parents, if we don't know which grades count in the end. I obviously want my kid to get good marks on all assignments, but they're human and screw up sometimes or don't get a particular unit of material.
My child is really upset. They worked hard after the start of the quarter stumble to get back on track and have months-long parade of A/B marks to show for their effort. And then their report card shows up with a D+. This is a child that's never even gotten a C. They feel like they did everything they were supposed to and then got blindsided by "not for grading".
I can't see anything good that comes out of destroying Madison HS or the trust that parents have with administrators and teachers. It's not without issues - Madison for many years did a poorer job with its low-income students than nearby schools like Marshall and McLean - but it's had strong community support and has served most of its students well for a long time.
And then stuff like this comes along and makes it a place to avoid. What is the saying "it takes years to build a reputation and seconds to destroy it"?
If Dr. Reid has any sense at all, she would be reassigning Liz Calvert to some desk job at Gatehouse, and finding a new principal to restore trust.
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