Mcps to overhaul grading policy

[Anonymous]

Found this article:

https://wjpitch.com/news/2025/04/10/mcps-to-overhaul-grading-policy/

Anyone know any more info on it?

[Anonymous]

Someone posted the presentation to the BoE in the other thread on grade inflation.

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/DFHRPN6EFA43/$file/Grading%20and%20Reporting%20Regulation%20Revision%20250410%20PPT%20REV.pdf

[Anonymous]

Being discussed here

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/135/1266507.page

[Anonymous]

Such idiots ruining the school board.

[Anonymous]

It doesn't sound like they have annoucned how it might change. I didn't realize from the other thread that one option was just to weight the second and fourth quarters higher than the first and third.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It doesn't sound like they have annoucned how it might change. I didn't realize from the other thread that one option was just to weight the second and fourth quarters higher than the first and third.

That's how it used to be. It was referred to as trend. A/B = B while B/A = A.

[Anonymous]

Why not just use the numeric course average to determine that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why not just use the numeric course average to determine that?

Or just have the gradebook go for the entire semester.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It doesn't sound like they have annoucned how it might change. I didn't realize from the other thread that one option was just to weight the second and fourth quarters higher than the first and third.

That's bizarre too. They already showed that attendance data where kids are absent in far more in MP2 and MP4 because of the current system. It will be the reverse then.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It doesn't sound like they have annoucned how it might change. I didn't realize from the other thread that one option was just to weight the second and fourth quarters higher than the first and third.

That's how it used to be. It was referred to as trend. A/B = B while B/A = A.

That’s not what they are considering doing. They are considering doing a numerical average of both marking periods within the semester. So if you got a 96 MP1 and an 89 MP2, you’d average out to an A for the semester despite the trend downward.

They are still developing the plan. Stay tuned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why not just use the numeric course average to determine that?

Or just have the gradebook go for the entire semester.

This.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It doesn't sound like they have annoucned how it might change. I didn't realize from the other thread that one option was just to weight the second and fourth quarters higher than the first and third.

That's how it used to be. It was referred to as trend. A/B = B while B/A = A.

That’s not what they are considering doing. They are considering doing a numerical average of both marking periods within the semester. So if you got a 96 MP1 and an 89 MP2, you’d average out to an A for the semester despite the trend downward.

They are still developing the plan. Stay tuned.

Another option they should consider is using the plus and minus system. So B- and A = B+, etc. Simpler than posting letter grades and then having to revert to numerical grades to calculate the semester letter grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It doesn't sound like they have annoucned how it might change. I didn't realize from the other thread that one option was just to weight the second and fourth quarters higher than the first and third.

That's how it used to be. It was referred to as trend. A/B = B while B/A = A.

That’s not what they are considering doing. They are considering doing a numerical average of both marking periods within the semester. So if you got a 96 MP1 and an 89 MP2, you’d average out to an A for the semester despite the trend downward.

They are still developing the plan. Stay tuned.

That makes sense--that's what most people have.

[Anonymous]

Colleges have caught on to mcps’s grade inflation and that reputation is hurting our students’ future outcomes.
Yet, parents and students push and push and push for grades, abuse of the 50% rule, etc.
The current grading system deters motivation for quarter 2 and quarter 4.
(Guess what I do lol).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Colleges have caught on to mcps’s grade inflation and that reputation is hurting our students’ future outcomes.
Yet, parents and students push and push and push for grades, abuse of the 50% rule, etc.
The current grading system deters motivation for quarter 2 and quarter 4.
(Guess what I do lol).

I doubt parents pushed for that bizarre policy to take the best grade of two marking periods that has deterred attendance for MP2 and 4. That seems like MCPS trying to get the graduation rates up…