Middle school hs credits?

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Anonymous wrote:Has grade inflation gotten so crazy that a B is something to be concerned about?

30 years ago when I graduated HS, (yes, I know I'm old), a B was considered respectable. What's happened?

Turns out for many of us, dropping the middle school As also increases the GPA. REmember, in a lot of these schools, kids graduate with better than a 4.0.

[Anonymous]

Instead of pushing kids to take AP Calculus or Physics, FCPS should require all students to take a personal finance course as a graduation requirement. It needs to include basic banking info. on compound interest, fees, loans, the stock market, etc. Kids are graduating with no financial literacy whatsoever, taking on huge debt to pay for expensive degrees in low paying fields, and setting themselves up for a lifetime of debt.

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Hello? Do you have any kids in Fairfax County? There is a course required in exactly that.

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Anonymous wrote:I know! Let kids be kids. The pressure they face these days is terrible.

If my kids don't get into TJ or an Ivy, so be it. I'm looking to raise decent, kind, responsible kids. I want them to have decent jobs doing something they love.

Pressure. That's the first thing that came to my mind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hello? Do you have any kids in Fairfax County? There is a course required in exactly that.

Is it a new requirement? When was it added?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Instead of pushing kids to take AP Calculus or Physics, FCPS should require all students to take a personal finance course as a graduation requirement. It needs to include basic banking info. on compound interest, fees, loans, the stock market, etc. Kids are graduating with no financial literacy whatsoever, taking on huge debt to pay for expensive degrees in low paying fields, and setting themselves up for a lifetime of debt.

It is already is required.

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Good. When is it typically taken and what is the course title? I have a younger student, but need to learn more about the curriculum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Instead of pushing kids to take AP Calculus or Physics, FCPS should require all students to take a personal finance course as a graduation requirement. It needs to include basic banking info. on compound interest, fees, loans, the stock market, etc. Kids are graduating with no financial literacy whatsoever, taking on huge debt to pay for expensive degrees in low paying fields, and setting themselves up for a lifetime of debt.

Do you have kids in school? The state of VA has required this course for a few years. My sophomore ds is taking it over the summer because there isn't room in the IB diploma program for it.

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Anonymous wrote:Good. When is it typically taken and what is the course title? I have a younger student, but need to learn more about the curriculum.

It's called Economics and Personal Finance

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Has grade inflation gotten so crazy that a B is something to be concerned about?

30 years ago when I graduated HS, (yes, I know I'm old), a B was considered respectable. What's happened?

Turns out for many of us, dropping the middle school As also increases the GPA. REmember, in a lot of these schools, kids graduate with better than a 4.0.

This is why colleges take GPA with a grain of salt and rely more on SAT/ACT and course load. Everybody has straight As these days.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Has grade inflation gotten so crazy that a B is something to be concerned about?

30 years ago when I graduated HS, (yes, I know I'm old), a B was considered respectable. What's happened?

Turns out for many of us, dropping the middle school As also increases the GPA. REmember, in a lot of these schools, kids graduate with better than a 4.0.

This is why colleges take GPA with a grain of salt and rely more on SAT/ACT and course load. Everybody has straight As these days.

NP, different jurisdiction: Well, if that's true, that is precisely why those of us with really smart 12 year olds who got Bs in high school credit courses in middle school are concerned about those Bs being on the transcript. We wouldn't have done anything different - a lower level math class would have been torture for this kid - but he's 12 and didn't always turn in the homework, and the teacher liked the clever joke he made on his summative, but couldn't give credit for it under the rubric. Sigh. One can only hope there isn't a GPA cut off pile that a 7th grade B will sabotage.

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Anonymous wrote:My DC is going to hs with 5 classes, 2 As, 2 Bs, and 1 B+. Should I drop one or both Bs to bring up his gpa? The Bs are in geometry and world geography. As are in algebra and language, with B+ in language as well. He should have had 4 As, but we had to take out of school to travel for one week because of family emergency. He simple couldn't bridge the gap is such short turn around time. The school sent the letter home asking for a decision..

how is this possible? What district are you in?

The only HS level classes in FCPS are Foreign Lang. I, Algebra, and Geometry. That makes three credits. There are a few -- very few--- who take Alg. in 6th grade and then would have Alg. 2 during MS... but those would be kids who get A's typically.

So what classes are these? Five HS credits coming out of MS is very unusual.

In some FCPS middle schools, students can take Spanish 1 in 7th grade and Spanish 2 in 8th grade. That's one more credit they could have.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Instead of pushing kids to take AP Calculus or Physics, FCPS should require all students to take a personal finance course as a graduation requirement. It needs to include basic banking info. on compound interest, fees, loans, the stock market, etc. Kids are graduating with no financial literacy whatsoever, taking on huge debt to pay for expensive degrees in low paying fields, and setting themselves up for a lifetime of debt.

Do you have kids in school? The state of VA has required this course for a few years. My sophomore ds is taking it over the summer because there isn't room in the IB diploma program for it.

+1

VA high school graduation requirements will change again in 2018-2019 school year for that year's 9th graders, although FCPS may try to shift this to starting in the 2019-2020 school year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Instead of pushing kids to take AP Calculus or Physics, FCPS should require all students to take a personal finance course as a graduation requirement. It needs to include basic banking info. on compound interest, fees, loans, the stock market, etc. Kids are graduating with no financial literacy whatsoever, taking on huge debt to pay for expensive degrees in low paying fields, and setting themselves up for a lifetime of debt.

Do you have kids in school? The state of VA has required this course for a few years. My sophomore ds is taking it over the summer because there isn't room in the IB diploma program for it.

+1

VA high school graduation requirements will change again in 2018-2019 school year for that year's 9th graders, although FCPS may try to shift this to starting in the 2019-2020 school year.

Link to slide deck from June 12, 2017 FCPS School Board work session:

http://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/AN6U3W78C393/$file/HS%20Graduation%20Pathways%20SBWS%20(June%2012%202017)_updated.pdf

Video:

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Cute how Ryan McElveen is playing on his phone in every shot