Do all schools (public/private) inflate grades now, allow test retakes until the kid gets a higher grade?
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Anonymous
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DCPS has walked it back this year to the highest grade on redone assignments* is a 76.
*There are two to three items mandated from downtown per year that are exempt and can be rescored up to 100. |
Anonymous
| So much extra busy work is piled on teachers as the ones without support or protection easily do double unpaid overtime. It's just easier to slap a high grade on a cheaters paper than have admin trying to bully teachers out of a job bc the kids and admin are so maladaptive and manipulative. |
Anonymous
| What city are you in? Parochial high schools are so rare. |
Anonymous
DP. Not rare in NoVA or Montgomery County. Several in each of those places. |
Anonymous
Same. Retakes are exceedingly rare in MCPS in my experience. In both my kids classes there have been two retake opportunities in total across 14 classes for a full semester. In one of those two instances nearly the entire class failed the quiz because the teacher had been out sick so he needed to re-cover the content. |
Anonymous
My MCPS kid has retakes available in math, but only one. You can't just retake and retake for a higher grade - you have the chance to review what you got wrong, get teacher support with concepts if you need them, and then try again. Basically, quizzes are re-takeable once, and tests are not. It's a different model than the one I had in HS, and I know some folks (like OP apparently) think the purpose is grade inflation but it actually leads to greater mastery of the concepts. Most kids don't retake, and the ones that do are usually really looking to make sure they have rock solid concepts before moving to the next competency. |
Anonymous
| My public school district allows no more than on retake per assignment and most assignments can’t be redone at all. |
Anonymous
Can you name one? NoVA, DC, Montgomery County and PG all have a mix of diocesan high schools, and independent faith based high schools, but I am not aware of any parochial high schools. Perhaps there is one in a denomination I'm not familiar with. |
Anonymous
| Private schools. No retakes. |
Anonymous
Parochial includes diocesan. You are splitting an invisible hair. |
Anonymous
Agreed. I think Don Bosco might be a diocesan school, but it is not parochial. |
Anonymous
+1 Very limited opportunities for retakes at our NoVA public school. Plus the kid needs to do extra work to qualify to do them and the max new grade is 80. OP is clueless. |
Anonymous
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All of them have inflated their grades. Some are inflated more than others. The exact mechanism by which the grades are inflated differs.
Note that grade inflation sabotages learning, so you get your pick: either your child learns something, or they go to a fancier college with their meaningless A, and are slightly more likely to bomb due to absorbing the signal that they don't need to work as hard, failing to learn basic material, and increased strength of schedule. Up to you. |
Anonymous
| Some privates, especially the rigorous ones, have grade deflation. These generally provide some information about their grade profile in the “school profile” that they supply to colleges. |
Anonymous
There is a huge difference between a parochial school that is attached to a parish and serves the kids from that parish and a diocesan school that serves an entire diocese and is not attached to a parish. There are plenty of parochial Catholic schools in the DC area but they all end at 8th. No one with a kid in Catholic school is confused about whether or not their kid is in a parochial school. So, either OP’a kid is attending a school from another denomination or is from another area, or is a troll trying to put down Catholic schools by pretending to be a clueless Catholic school parent. |