Questions about new grading policy and semester vs. year-long courses

[Anonymous]

The new grading policy says semester grades will be the average of the two quarters for semester-long courses and the average of all four quarters for year-long courses. Does anyone know what counts as a year-long course? At our high school kids have almost all new teachers second semester, so for example, are Physics A and Physics B one year-long class (even if it’s with two different teachers) or two semester-long classes? Assuming all A/B classes are considered year-long classes, does that mean your kid won’t know their first semester grades until the end of all four quarters? And then does the average of the four become their grades for both semesters? This is so confusing!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/14eLJDsHHaFPUdw3Agm8xuQH0_ztil2Vt/view

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The new grading policy says semester grades will be the average of the two quarters for semester-long courses and the average of all four quarters for year-long courses. Does anyone know what counts as a year-long course? At our high school kids have almost all new teachers second semester, so for example, are Physics A and Physics B one year-long class (even if it’s with two different teachers) or two semester-long classes? Assuming all A/B classes are considered year-long classes, does that mean your kid won’t know their first semester grades until the end of all four quarters? And then does the average of the four become their grades for both semesters? This is so confusing!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/14eLJDsHHaFPUdw3Agm8xuQH0_ztil2Vt/view

All high school classes are semester-long, but the policy also applies to middle schools. Most middle school classes are year-long.

[Anonymous]

All HS courses are semester-long courses. Middle school has mostly year-long courses, except that the HS credit courses taught in middle school are semester-long.

[Anonymous]

Thank you! That makes sense.

[Anonymous]

Wow. This is going to be a wakeup call for MCPS students. No more options to game the system. Good for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All HS courses are semester-long courses. Middle school has mostly year-long courses, except that the HS credit courses taught in middle school are semester-long.

Middle school "final" year grades are absolutely meaningless.

[Anonymous]

There is already a thread. Is your question answered in this long thread?:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1278710.page