APS Most Likely Moving to Standards-Based Grading/Grading for Equity Next School Year

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Which SB member? Priddy?

Looks like my comment got flagged, I guess I offended someone by pointing out that the school board is more responsive to the local Democratic Party than to parents and teachers. But yes, Priddy is the only one. None of the others have kids in the system anymore, or yet

Priddy moved one to private and the other to HB. What a vote of confidence in neighborhood school!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How are these kids going to survive in the real world?

The ones with trust funds will be fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hasn't this shipped sailed long ago???

I mean when you have 27 Valedictorians, it tells you something.

In Fairfax County in the 80s/90s, we had one.

Valedictorian: a student (singular), typically having the highest academic achievements of the class, who delivers the valedictory at a graduation ceremony.

The private schools still have one Valedictorian and one Salutatorian.

Salutatorian: the student who ranks second highest in a graduating class and delivers the salutatory. a graduating class and delivers the salutatory.

The terms have come to mean very little in public HS.

My high school in fairfax county in the early 2000s had nine people that were valedictorians. They all were equally the highest. But only one could give the speech. They had to submit an essay and whoever had the best gave the speech. All nine were honored on stage for about a minute though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:APS and the School Board last night had their first working session to discuss setting a new grading policy by the end of this school year, with changes driven by equity concerns (based off of the book "Grading for Equity" by Joe Feldman, which 100+ at APS are reading right now and every SB member received a copy of last night).

a) Eliminating late penalties for turning in homework late
b) Allowing retakes of tests

Thoughts? Anyone know about empirical results? Downsides?

I'd never have gone to university let alone earned a professional graduate degree if a and b had existed when I went to school in the 1990s. Homework would never have been done, ever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Which SB member? Priddy?

Looks like my comment got flagged, I guess I offended someone by pointing out that the school board is more responsive to the local Democratic Party than to parents and teachers. But yes, Priddy is the only one. None of the others have kids in the system anymore, or yet

Priddy moved one to private and the other to HB. What a vote of confidence in neighborhood school!

Lol, I didn’t know that. So among school board members, there’s exactly one kid who attends APS schools and it’s HB. Figures.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How are these kids going to survive in the real world?

That’s not the concern. SBG and grading for equity rests on the theory that kids who do well in the current system don’t deserve their success and need to be cut down to size and punished.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hasn't this shipped sailed long ago???

I mean when you have 27 Valedictorians, it tells you something.

In Fairfax County in the 80s/90s, we had one.

Valedictorian: a student (singular), typically having the highest academic achievements of the class, who delivers the valedictory at a graduation ceremony.

The private schools still have one Valedictorian and one Salutatorian.

Salutatorian: the student who ranks second highest in a graduating class and delivers the salutatory. a graduating class and delivers the salutatory.

The terms have come to mean very little in public HS.

My high school in fairfax county in the early 2000s had nine people that were valedictorians. They all were equally the highest. But only one could give the speech. They had to submit an essay and whoever had the best gave the speech. All nine were honored on stage for about a minute though.

In my early-90s graduating class we did the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What exactly are the equity concerns with grades?

Some kids won't have their parents pushing them to do their homework, so it is not fair to grade homework.
The rest is their belief that black kids do poorly, so we need to not grade those things as harshly.

I'm not sure if PP's post was sarcastic or serious, but clearly that conclusion does not logically follow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The elimination of extra credit. That must be designed to say, no more freebies for wealthy/UMC families who have the time and resources to complete those projects. On this point, I applaud you, leaders of APS!

What a joke... what do you think those "bridge" projects are for kids who can't pass courses necessary for graduation?