Herndon high - what’s going on?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Pretty funny. SBG was designed to bring the top down and the bottom up. Looks like it works to me. What’s the problem?

Exactly. This is "equity," playing out in real time. I hope all of you who voted for this are happy with yourselves?

Next election cycle, find some legitimate conservatives to run for school board instead of a bunch of MAGA clowns and I'll be glad to vote for one of them.

You will accuse any one endorsed by republicans as a “MAGA clown” so your opinion is irrelevant.

Actually, there are a lot of us who know the difference between legitimate conservatism and MAGA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pretty funny. SBG was designed to bring the top down and the bottom up. Looks like it works to me. What’s the problem?

Exactly. This is "equity," playing out in real time. I hope all of you who voted for this are happy with yourselves?

Next election cycle, find some legitimate conservatives to run for school board instead of a bunch of MAGA clowns and I'll be glad to vote for one of them.

I don’t think a moderate conservative can overcome the non-parent voter who will just vote blue down the line. Dems will always win in this area and these problems are theirs alone to solve.

Unfortunately, this is true. Might be nice to have only parents vote for school board.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why does FCPS continually feel the need to change what was working well and turn it into chaos?

Regular (traditional) grading worked and was understood by all. Why did they change it?

Non-school bureaucrats are always trying to justify their jobs by coming up with the "new" thing. Standards based grading is an old concept from the '80's and '90's. It's being recycled in a new package. Eventually going back to all classes everyday will become a new trend and FCPS will do that and try to convince everyone that block schedule was a mistake.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why does FCPS continually feel the need to change what was working well and turn it into chaos?

Regular (traditional) grading worked and was understood by all. Why did they change it?

Non-school bureaucrats are always trying to justify their jobs by coming up with the "new" thing. Standards based grading is an old concept from the '80's and '90's. It's being recycled in a new package. Eventually going back to all classes everyday will become a new trend and FCPS will do that and try to convince everyone that block schedule was a mistake.

Yes and the same stats that supported the old way are flipped to support the new way.

[Anonymous]

Fine even if SBG is the best new-old thing, then there needs to be consistency across the schools in the county. Why should Madison and Herndon kids suffer through SBG when the kids at McLean and Langley still get their inflated grades?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fine even if SBG is the best new-old thing, then there needs to be consistency across the schools in the county. Why should Madison and Herndon kids suffer through SBG when the kids at McLean and Langley still get their inflated grades?

It is curious is it not?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fine even if SBG is the best new-old thing, then there needs to be consistency across the schools in the county. Why should Madison and Herndon kids suffer through SBG when the kids at McLean and Langley still get their inflated grades?

Sorry, should have encouraged you to contact your SB member to let them know your thoughts.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Fine even if SBG is the best new-old thing, then there needs to be consistency across the schools in the county. Why should Madison and Herndon kids suffer through SBG when the kids at McLean and Langley still get their inflated grades?

Sorry, should have encouraged you to contact your SB member to let them know your thoughts.

Oh I have! Many many times to be “left on read” as the kids say!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fine even if SBG is the best new-old thing, then there needs to be consistency across the schools in the county. Why should Madison and Herndon kids suffer through SBG when the kids at McLean and Langley still get their inflated grades?

Sorry, should have encouraged you to contact your SB member to let them know your thoughts.

Oh I have! Many many times to be “left on read” as the kids say!

Having different grading systems seems to fly in the face of One Fairfax.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why does FCPS continually feel the need to change what was working well and turn it into chaos?

Regular (traditional) grading worked and was understood by all. Why did they change it?

Non-school bureaucrats are always trying to justify their jobs by coming up with the "new" thing. Standards based grading is an old concept from the '80's and '90's. It's being recycled in a new package. Eventually going back to all classes everyday will become a new trend and FCPS will do that and try to convince everyone that block schedule was a mistake.

No standards based grading is not what was going on in the 80s and 90s. Anywhere. At any grade

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fine even if SBG is the best new-old thing, then there needs to be consistency across the schools in the county. Why should Madison and Herndon kids suffer through SBG when the kids at McLean and Langley still get their inflated grades?

Why does the extreme left always want to drag others down to the lowest level rather than actually fixing issues?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Fine even if SBG is the best new-old thing, then there needs to be consistency across the schools in the county. Why should Madison and Herndon kids suffer through SBG when the kids at McLean and Langley still get their inflated grades?

Why does the extreme left always want to drag others down to the lowest level rather than actually fixing issues?

What does this even mean?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fine even if SBG is the best new-old thing, then there needs to be consistency across the schools in the county. Why should Madison and Herndon kids suffer through SBG when the kids at McLean and Langley still get their inflated grades?

Why does the extreme left always want to drag others down to the lowest level rather than actually fixing issues?

What does this even mean?

DP - you really don't know what this means? FCPS is teaching to the lowest common denominator. It's not fair others have _____, because I wasn't born as smart or didn't have the same environment. If you have more or do better than me, it's not because of your hard work. If some kids do homework, that's not fair because others have parents that won't make them or their home life is not conducive to homework. If some kids turn in their classwork and get a grade, that's not fair because other kids may know the material but they didn't do the work, so not fair. If a kid studies for a test and gets a 4 and another gets a 2, that kid with the 2 should be given more opportunities to get a 4, because it's not fair for anyone to be stuck with the results that come from not studying/having a bad day/whatever.

I wish FCPS would just give the kids with Ds and Fs a C and leave everyone else alone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fine even if SBG is the best new-old thing, then there needs to be consistency across the schools in the county. Why should Madison and Herndon kids suffer through SBG when the kids at McLean and Langley still get their inflated grades?

Why does the extreme left always want to drag others down to the lowest level rather than actually fixing issues?

What does this even mean?

DP - you really don't know what this means? FCPS is teaching to the lowest common denominator. It's not fair others have _____, because I wasn't born as smart or didn't have the same environment. If you have more or do better than me, it's not because of your hard work. If some kids do homework, that's not fair because others have parents that won't make them or their home life is not conducive to homework. If some kids turn in their classwork and get a grade, that's not fair because other kids may know the material but they didn't do the work, so not fair. If a kid studies for a test and gets a 4 and another gets a 2, that kid with the 2 should be given more opportunities to get a 4, because it's not fair for anyone to be stuck with the results that come from not studying/having a bad day/whatever.

I wish FCPS would just give the kids with Ds and Fs a C and leave everyone else alone.

Bingo!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fine even if SBG is the best new-old thing, then there needs to be consistency across the schools in the county. Why should Madison and Herndon kids suffer through SBG when the kids at McLean and Langley still get their inflated grades?

Why does the extreme left always want to drag others down to the lowest level rather than actually fixing issues?

What does this even mean?

DP - you really don't know what this means? FCPS is teaching to the lowest common denominator. It's not fair others have _____, because I wasn't born as smart or didn't have the same environment. If you have more or do better than me, it's not because of your hard work. If some kids do homework, that's not fair because others have parents that won't make them or their home life is not conducive to homework. If some kids turn in their classwork and get a grade, that's not fair because other kids may know the material but they didn't do the work, so not fair. If a kid studies for a test and gets a 4 and another gets a 2, that kid with the 2 should be given more opportunities to get a 4, because it's not fair for anyone to be stuck with the results that come from not studying/having a bad day/whatever.

I wish FCPS would just give the kids with Ds and Fs a C and leave everyone else alone.

Bingo!

Do lowest grade C for all classes but have to pass SOL to advance a grade so remains motivation to teach and learn material.