New FCPS grading policy?

[Anonymous]

My kid gets retakes in college. It is very professor dependent. Not a college policy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What a stupid policy. So unless you’re a fool, everyone will just re-take or re-do assignments until they get an A?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/07/01/fairfax-county-schools-grading-policy-changes/

You'd be surprised how many kids need to and don't do retakes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid gets retakes in college. It is very professor dependent. Not a college policy.

What college? Never heard of this and I have two in college.

[Anonymous]

Well because YOU never heard if it it must not exist. You and your sample set of 2

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid gets retakes in college. It is very professor dependent. Not a college policy.

What college? Never heard of this and I have two in college.

Not the PP but I got retakes in college in thr 90s. I went to FSU. It was a random engineering class but I needed it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Way to prepare the kids for college or the real world.

No retakes in college. Boss might go easy have to redo something every once in a while but not often.

In my day, college did not have retakes but they did grade on a curve, which FCPS does not do. You could totally whiff on a test and as long as everyone else did too, you were OK.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid gets retakes in college. It is very professor dependent. Not a college policy.

What college? Never heard of this and I have two in college.

My daughter is at Wellesley College

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well because YOU never heard if it it must not exist. You and your sample set of 2

No, fool, that’s why I asked what college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Way to prepare the kids for college or the real world.

No retakes in college. Boss might go easy have to redo something every once in a while but not often.

Of course this really sucks for the teacher as well.

Just save time and give everyone As. Kids who want to learn will, kids who don’t will wind up on the dole.

I am a teacher. This is the logical conclusion.

Unlimited retakes is not going to happen. Just dumb down the test and viola happy kids and parents and principals.

[Anonymous]

Of course this is going to result in teachers throwing up their hands and just giving As.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Way to prepare the kids for college or the real world.

No retakes in college. Boss might go easy have to redo something every once in a while but not often.

Of course this really sucks for the teacher as well.

Just save time and give everyone As. Kids who want to learn will, kids who don’t will wind up on the dole.

I am a teacher. This is the logical conclusion.

Unlimited retakes is not going to happen. Just dumb down the test and viola happy kids and parents and principals.

The kids who don't care don't take retakes under the current policy (open to anyone who gets under an 80 with the max possible being half of the missed points back), what makes anyone think the new policy would change things from them? The kids retaking will be the ones who are already working hard and doing well. They won't retake to pass a class, they'll retake to turn a 95 into a 97

[Anonymous]

Well it still won't be "fair." Even with the 80 percent retake some teachers made special policies as a workaround, for example doing mostly quizzes since those can't be retake , or having papers due but you are allowed and encouraged to hand them in 2 weeks later, as after the 2 week late mark you can give a kid a zero so they make fake deadlines to work around that...

So I can see that some teachers will just find a way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well it still won't be "fair." Even with the 80 percent retake some teachers made special policies as a workaround, for example doing mostly quizzes since those can't be retake , or having papers due but you are allowed and encouraged to hand them in 2 weeks later, as after the 2 week late mark you can give a kid a zero so they make fake deadlines to work around that...

So I can see that some teachers will just find a way.

My kid was fortunate enough to have a teacher in middle school like that. It taught her to turn everything in on time, regularly screenshot schoology, immediately e-mail teachers requesting a retake after receiving a grade or at the two week mark even if the test wasn't returned. Screenshotting managed to turn a solid B into a solid A when a teacher e-mailed her telling her that he assignment was late and couldn't be retaken when confronted with evidence that the due date was changed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid gets retakes in college. It is very professor dependent. Not a college policy.

What college? Never heard of this and I have two in college.

My daughter is at Wellesley College

That's because they need to keep their bread and butter full-pay families happy and confident in a choice that recognizes the superiority of their offspring. Brown has P/F for lots of classes. Hard to get below a B at Harvard. Etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid gets retakes in college. It is very professor dependent. Not a college policy.

What college? Never heard of this and I have two in college.

DP, my daughter has also had retakes in a couple classes.