Grade inflation in MS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:50% rule and the way final grades are averaged definitely makes grade inflation real. Combine that with no real due dates for homework and retakes you are not looking at a lot of challenge or accountability. Not sure what your goal was in moving kid from private to public. If rigor was your goal, I'd move back. Otherwise, I'd probably relax. It sounds like your kid is finishing their work on time and is getting good grades. That could be really beneficial for self-esteem.

What schools are still giving 50 percent for no work? Not my kids school.

Most are.

[Anonymous]

I think on homework, if you don’t turn in an assignment, you can get a 0. If you do turn it in, the lowest you can get is a 50, even if everything was wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:50% rule and the way final grades are averaged definitely makes grade inflation real. Combine that with no real due dates for homework and retakes you are not looking at a lot of challenge or accountability. Not sure what your goal was in moving kid from private to public. If rigor was your goal, I'd move back. Otherwise, I'd probably relax. It sounds like your kid is finishing their work on time and is getting good grades. That could be really beneficial for self-esteem.

What schools are still giving 50 percent for no work? Not my kids school.

Most are.

Equity, amirite?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:50% rule and the way final grades are averaged definitely makes grade inflation real. Combine that with no real due dates for homework and retakes you are not looking at a lot of challenge or accountability. Not sure what your goal was in moving kid from private to public. If rigor was your goal, I'd move back. Otherwise, I'd probably relax. It sounds like your kid is finishing their work on time and is getting good grades. That could be really beneficial for self-esteem.

What schools are still giving 50 percent for no work? Not my kids school.

Most are.

Equity, amirite?

Your answer/accusation for everything?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPS MS does not focus on academics. They focus more on social emotional learning. Academics is a joke, which sets them up for failure when they hit HS and start taking AP classes.

In hindsight, we should've put our DC in private school for MS; we had thought about that during covid, but we let it go.

When they hit HS and started taking AP classes, the lack of any academic rigor in MS became obvious.

I’m not pro MCPS, but that is not true. My kids MS had some excellent teachers that focused on learning and they were well prepared for HS. There are some bad apples, but that’s everywhere in life, not just teachers. There was no social emotional learning. What the hell is that?

[Anonymous]

There is grade inflation everywhere, not just at MCPS and not just public school. It happens in private school also. And in college. Let’s get real.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:50% rule and the way final grades are averaged definitely makes grade inflation real. Combine that with no real due dates for homework and retakes you are not looking at a lot of challenge or accountability. Not sure what your goal was in moving kid from private to public. If rigor was your goal, I'd move back. Otherwise, I'd probably relax. It sounds like your kid is finishing their work on time and is getting good grades. That could be really beneficial for self-esteem.

What schools are still giving 50 percent for no work? Not my kids school.

Most are.

Not mine either. Nor our HS. Sounds like some Principals need to follow the grading policy.