SLAC returning to pre-covid grading policy
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Anonymous
| title says it all lol - my kid is at a top SLAC and received a mass email this week from department head saying they were returning to tougher grading policy, where average grade will likely be a B+. He said thank god I’m a senior |
Anonymous
| Which school? |
Anonymous
| Yeah it would be helpful for you to share which school |
Anonymous
| a Nescac |
Anonymous
So 1 of the 11? |
Anonymous
| is it Amherst? They are very proud that they went extreme on covid and were just after Harvard at closing down. It's become part of their DNA. It's one of the reasons DD decided not to go there (because we were there at an info session, outdoors, in socially distant chairs, and all required to wear a KN-95. This was after the vaccine--and we were required to prove we had the vaccine too, I recall. he whole thing was just overkill. |
Anonymous
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sorry for being vague gang but probably a
handful of kids from DCUM region are seniors at this school - and I’m usually in the group who says “name the school!” when I read these posts |
Anonymous
| The message indicated that a fundamental premise of grading is to provide an evaluation of student performance that has a consistent meaning across instructors and classes. Went on to say that this premise was challenged by the reality that some faculty changed grading procedures and/or course workload expectations during the pandemic and that some of those faculty have already returned to their pre-pandemic expectations. |
Anonymous
| honestly have to applaud them for taking this stance - most schools swept this stuff under the rug |
Anonymous
| Why was it changed in the first place? |
Anonymous
| can only surmise they didn’t want to be failing virtual students out of the school |
Anonymous
Considering there’s a ton of people on the college forum who aren’t from the DMV, naming the college in your OP wouldn’t have outed your kid. But I guess now it would. |
Anonymous
I was going to ask this too. I can see how some policies might change in COVID to allow for managing illness, flexibility on assignments or class attendance while having proof of illness....but changing the grading scale or mean seems unnecessary as a COVID response. |
Anonymous
And now...somebody please find the school and list it. Challenge on! |
Anonymous
| Gettysburg College? |