high schools without 50% minimum grade

[Anonymous]

OP, are you expecting your child to not turn in their work or to do work that deserves a grade below 50%? If not, then their grades will be accurate.

And if a classmate of your kid gets a C- instead of a D, it will really have no impact on your child one way or the other.

[Anonymous]

Yo Karen. Have you ever typed with 2 fingers on a phone. Sometimes there are errors. I am about content and debating the facts and systematic structures. I'm not about insulting people about spelling errors.

You don't sound like a teacher bc teachers know what goes on in schools. Most teachers do the bidding bc they do t want to lose their job so they play the numbers game. Other teachers have a moral code to not fraud data. We are usually given a hard time and then discarded. The latter is usually the good teachers.

[Anonymous]

Forget the floor grade...I am in shock that teachers are getting fired because the classroom is out of control. If this is true, shame on the admin for not supporting and/or training teachers with classroom management. There is a huge shortage. Who are they going to get to replace you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hello

I am interested in high schools in the DMV that can give grades lower than 50% when they are deserved.
Does every public school have this minimum grade policy?
Are there private schools that also have this minimum grade policy? Or maybe it's not explicitly written down, but teachers are expected to pass everyone?

I'm sure there are people out there who like the 50% minimum policy and I think you should go with what works for you, no judgment.
But where can a high-school aged child go if the family wants traditional grading for accuracy?

Thank you, and my apologies if this is already covered by another thread.

Why? What a peculiar thing to be concerned with.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Catholic schools typically don't have lower grade thresholds. Ask me how I know! My DS had a 28% in algebra in 9th grade. He only passed with a 72% but that was after months of hard work and going to get extra math help during his free periods. No retakes either.

+1 No minimum grade policy plus rules for academic probation, retaking failed classes, or mandatory summer school to bring the grade to an acceptable level. Also a mimimum grade threshhold to stay in the school. Students do fail out or leave when they see that their high school transcript isn't going to look like what it could be at an easier school.

It's not for everyone, so be careful what you wish for.

[Anonymous]

I would like to see a standardized test, that is scantron graded, as the final exam that is worth 50% of your grade. That makes accountability and statistical transparency a priority as well as it allows a fair, just, and level playing field untethered to influenced of bias and manipulation like PTA groups, parents that want extra time or special supports or extra credits to ensure their kid gets an A etc.

Put on top of that cameras in the classroom and we will have a recipe for corruption free schools that makes security and learning a priority.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FCPS has a hybrid policy. If kids do not turn in the assignment, it is a 0. If they turn in something, even if it is incorrect, they get a 50%. The idea is that it gives a kid some room to recover their grade.

My teacher friends tell me that most of those 0s stay 0s, kids are not turning in something to get the 50%. It is possible that some schools are keeping the 50% for all kids but I am hearing less of that happening.

The 50% came out of COVID and is slowly rolling back.

This is not true. FCPS' floor is 50% for everything. I am not allowed to put a 0 in my gradebook. I can put in an "NTI" (not turned in), but it is still a 50.

[Anonymous]

There was an expression at my MCOS school. We would say to the kids to get them to motivated for an assignment. It was, " put your names in the top of the paper so we know who to give 50% to.

[Anonymous]

This is not true. FCPS' floor is 50% for everything. I am not allowed to put a 0 in my gradebook. I can put in an "NTI" (not turned in), but it is still a 50.

This must be your school then. It is not a blanket FCPS policy. Where I teach (an FCPS high school), if a student doesn't turn in work, it gets an NTI but that grade is a 0. At the end of the quarter, if the quarter grade is less than 50%, I have to raise it to 50% but that is not very common (maybe 1 kid a quarter).

[Anonymous]

What happens when the students are not just not doing the work but cussing the teacher out, swinging punches, actively trying to destroy and ruining the lessons for everyone else everyday due to their own degraded literacy/inadequacy . Do we roll over and give everyone good grades bc admin is too spineless to help enforce structure. Should we teachers just sit back and do nothing or ignore the chaos because we need our jobs, insurance, paycheck and we don't want to engage in fights.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

This is not true. FCPS' floor is 50% for everything. I am not allowed to put a 0 in my gradebook. I can put in an "NTI" (not turned in), but it is still a 50.

This must be your school then. It is not a blanket FCPS policy. Where I teach (an FCPS high school), if a student doesn't turn in work, it gets an NTI but that grade is a 0. At the end of the quarter, if the quarter grade is less than 50%, I have to raise it to 50% but that is not very common (maybe 1 kid a quarter).

That's interesting. I thought FCPS was trying to be more consistent across the whole county.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FCPS has a hybrid policy. If kids do not turn in the assignment, it is a 0. If they turn in something, even if it is incorrect, they get a 50%. The idea is that it gives a kid some room to recover their grade.

My teacher friends tell me that most of those 0s stay 0s, kids are not turning in something to get the 50%. It is possible that some schools are keeping the 50% for all kids but I am hearing less of that happening.

The 50% came out of COVID and is slowly rolling back.

Technically MCPS has the same policy. You can also, allegedly, give a zero for work turned in that doesn’t show an attempt to meet minimum standards for the assignment. Less than half of the work completed could get a zero. Writing a book report about a spicy YA novel rather than the assigned analysis of two non-fiction texts could get a zero. In theory.
In practice, you are expected to work with the student and parents to try to remedy the gap. At my school, it is three well-documented interventions over the course of three weeks. No one has time for that.

[Anonymous]

To get them motivated just announce in the beginning, "hey kids, write your name so we know who to give 50% to. I give up on the 50 % rule. Most of these idiots will fail the tests and quizzes so unless your admin wants inflation pass along shenanigans they will fail. Just send an email to admin am requesting that if they want grade fraud they do it themselves. That will also be a good documentation if you have to sue them later for wrongful termination.