Superintendent Taylor admits there is grade inflation in MCPS during BoE meeting

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Anonymous wrote:The reason they got rid of final exams has to do with the rubrics and teaching to the test. The high flyers who got As all semesters (including those with 89.6) figured put they could get a 54 on the final exam and keep their As.

54s on final exams are not a good look, and so, no more final exams

Interesting. So kids were using the final exams to game the grades in the opposite way of what they're doing now.

Just goes to show that MCPS sucks at its jobs and can't come up with solutions that get to the root of the problem and anticipates loopholes in their shoddily constructed policies.

Agree, only include exams if they are meaningful. I'd like to see them move to year-long classes and have each marking period percentage (not grade) and the final exam percentage (not grade) count 20% toward the course grade. I know, I'm dreaming.

There were a couple attempts to overhaul final exams before they were done away with. I believe they were worth a high percentage (at least 20%) of the overall grade as late as at least 2012. I know at high achieving high schools prepping and paying for tutoring for final exams was very common under that system. I'd like to see them start with using numerical percentages for quarter grades then averaging those quarter grades to the semester grade. See what happens, then decide how to weight final exams.

I think that's in fact what is being proposed for next year.

When will they vote on that proposal? I want to weite in to support.

I think the board doesn't vote on it since it's a change being made in the Regulation, not the Policy.

+1 No Vote - Information only to the Board

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College is suppose to be the great equalizer not put students in debt for the rest of their lives. It's almost great kids are dumbed down. It will take them a solid decade to understand the corruption of education to make them lifelong debtors for some worthless degree.

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That's why parents need to supplement and enrich at home.

Poorly educated will be replaced by AI.

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Anonymous wrote:That's why parents need to supplement and enrich at home.

Yep, I don't rely on the school system to teach my children everything. I make sure they understand what they are learning and teach extra stuff. I don't hire tutors.
Bonus - an educated kid will one day be able to tutor their own kid.

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Anonymous wrote:College is suppose to be the great equalizer not put students in debt for the rest of their lives. It's almost great kids are dumbed down. It will take them a solid decade to understand the corruption of education to make them lifelong debtors for some worthless degree.

Mcps offers an early college program with two years of free community college and an associate degree.

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Anonymous wrote:That's why parents need to supplement and enrich at home.

Yep, I don't rely on the school system to teach my children everything. I make sure they understand what they are learning and teach extra stuff. I don't hire tutors.
Bonus - an educated kid will one day be able to tutor their own kid.

It’s easy to supplement in elementary and middle but wait till your kid takes apps like calc bc. Can you teach that?

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So when are they planning to announce the new grade scheme and who is effect for? Not to mention, an update to the calendar to note semester exams?

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Anonymous wrote:So when are they planning to announce the new grade scheme and who is effect for? Not to mention, an update to the calendar to note semester exams?

I'm not aware of any proposal to bring back finals.

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Anonymous wrote:The mealy mouthed education speak word salad nonsense from central office staff absolutely erodes parent and teacher confidence in MCPS. If the new superintendent is going to make people start taking responsibility and stop hiding behind long-winded jargon, a lot of us will be thrilled.

Absolutely. The level of double speak and talking around serious issues that comes from the MCPS administrative ranks is infuriating. This is one part of MCPS's culture that Dr. Taylor needs to stamp out ASAP.

This.

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Anonymous wrote:So when are they planning to announce the new grade scheme and who is effect for? Not to mention, an update to the calendar to note semester exams?

It isn't listed on the June 10th agenda.

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Anonymous wrote:That's why parents need to supplement and enrich at home.

Yep, I don't rely on the school system to teach my children everything. I make sure they understand what they are learning and teach extra stuff. I don't hire tutors.
Bonus - an educated kid will one day be able to tutor their own kid.

It’s easy to supplement in elementary and middle but wait till your kid takes apps like calc bc. Can you teach that?

Khan academy can.

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Anonymous wrote:That's why parents need to supplement and enrich at home.

Poorly educated will be replaced by AI.

Are you sure?

AI is highly educated.

What AI can't do is the jobs that poorly educated do.