More skills based grading at madison hs
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Anonymous
In theory, it’s supposed to provide more detailed info about learning. They are maybe trying to take the focus off of grades? |
Anonymous
How do you think this would happen? If kids are doing the work and learning they will continue to do well. |
Anonymous
In order to get an A now, there generally can be zero mistakes on a test. One mistake gets you a B. There are no more A- or B+ grades. |
Anonymous
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OMG this woman is such a troll. Ok yeah give my kid Bs and Cs for A work for 1-2 graded in class assignments. Go ahead. I’m keeping every graded assignment and every rubric and will challenge it all in the end if I have to and I encourage every other parent to do the same. This is ridiculous.
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Anonymous
A lot of kids want to go to VT or even UVA. It’s not fair that Madison kids are at a disadvantage. It is incredibly stressful for hardworking Madison students. Ask any junior or senior other than your own kid. Most of us don’t want to pay OOS tuition because our kids couldn’t get into VA state schools, and we want them to have an equal shot at the most competitive VA schools they can get into. Getting ahead of the Joneses? What? High school is supposed to be where things matter. Why do you think it’s ok to harm someone’s future or change the outcome all to make administrators look better? It’s sick. These kids are really excited about their future and full of dreams. This SBG process makes them cynical. |
Anonymous
This is what every parent in a school with SBG must do. Only way to stop the madness to come. |
Anonymous
There are still A- and B+ grades. https://madisonhs.fcps.edu/academics/grading-and-reporting |
Anonymous
Definitely not c.r.a.z.y. 
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Anonymous
You obviously don't attend or have involvement in this school. As mentioned many times before only the end grade for the year has pluses and minuses. Not each individual grade. |
Anonymous
Maybe for kids but it really just gives the administration more information on when each standard is assessed. Since the kids can't follow it, it's more for the administration to make sure the teacher has a document in only one area that shows each standard was assessed. It doesn't even really do that because the skill names are so vague but that was its original intent. To make sure teachers weren't giving points on grading for bringing in tissues because of some fake problem that kids were passing classes without learning the standards. |
Anonymous
If you saw the grade and the rubric and the work you would say this is crazy. So crazy that I think teachers from a non-SBG school would agree this is a problem. Here is a teacher discussing SBG - she says it’s called equity grading in urban areas and SBG in the suburbs. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EllKCP2aO-k She talks about the why. She says it’s being implemented because people think the traditional grading system hurts kids self-esteem, they get in a hole and can’t dig themselves out. |
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EllKCP2aO-k
“If you lower the standards you can open the door for more people to have opportunities but the problem is if you lower the standards, you open up a door but if that person was never given the skills, the character, the attitude and the habits to maintain what they are given the to me that’s almost worse than never having to begin with.” Instead of lowering standards, she thinks we need a movement of volunteers to show up and teach kids. It can’t be all on teachers to fill in the gaps that kids show up to school with. This is the approach I thought Calvert should have taken all along. There are tons of parents who are former teachers or tutors, who would be happy to show up to mentor and teach the students that need it. I am a former teacher myself with plenty of time to do something like this either during or after school. |
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Sorry typing on a phone. She said “then to me that’s worse then never having it to begin with.” The person doesn’t develop the habits that would enable them to maintain success.
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Anonymous
This x1000. The principal has said numerous times that taking quizzes stresses kids out so this happily removes that stress because they aren’t graded. So for those that claim this is like college - no, eliminating stress is not like college AND besides, the actual tests are stressful because of how the grading is. |
Anonymous
At the end of the video she says that SGB/equity grading "doesn't prepare students for life, for college, not even a job at a fast food establishment. Everywhere we go, we have rules, procedures, standards, expectations and time limits on things and students from ALL backgrounds are being taught that it does not matter." It's a bandaid so that these districts can the brag, "we have a 98% graduation rate." She says that as a teacher under this system what she saw was "NOT GOOD." |