Wootton Vs Churchill - Why such a huge difference?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Grade inflation worse at Churchill than Wootton

+10000 - a Churchill parent who looks at her child’s work. Standards for grades at Churchill are drastically low. Students are being cheated from a rigorous education that prepares them for college and life. Many of the best teachers where students had to earn their grades have left in the past 4 years.

[Anonymous]

You think nothing significant happened on 2020 that might affect stats?

[Anonymous]

If the student gets an A or B then teachers don’t have to support a struggling student, school administrators are happy, IEP Teams can dismiss students from special education, parents are lulled to think their child is learning basic skills, and students progress towards graduation. The core component lost are the skills a student is supposed to have developed and demonstrated in the course.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You think nothing significant happened on 2020 that might affect stats?

As far as Churchill, school administrators exempted my child from work that wasn’t completed online so he could earn As and Bs. A lot of assignments were exempted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the student gets an A or B then teachers don’t have to support a struggling student, school administrators are happy, IEP Teams can dismiss students from special education, parents are lulled to think their child is learning basic skills, and students progress towards graduation. The core component lost are the skills a student is supposed to have developed and demonstrated in the course.

This.

MCPS has lost its culture for excellence. It’s a cynical bunch at admin. It’s why we departed in the pandemic - but it had been bad from the time of Starr and his switch to social and emotional learning above solid curriculum. Pearson got ‘em with all that hubris and greed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Grade inflation worse at Churchill than Wootton

+10000 - a Churchill parent who looks at her child’s work. Standards for grades at Churchill are drastically low. Students are being cheated from a rigorous education that prepares them for college and life. Many of the best teachers where students had to earn their grades have left in the past 4 years.

Have you ever gone back to look at your HS work?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Grade inflation worse at Churchill than Wootton

+10000 - a Churchill parent who looks at her child’s work. Standards for grades at Churchill are drastically low. Students are being cheated from a rigorous education that prepares them for college and life. Many of the best teachers where students had to earn their grades have left in the past 4 years.

Wootton parent here. That's doubly true for Wootton. The grade inflation is just crazy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the student gets an A or B then teachers don’t have to support a struggling student, school administrators are happy, IEP Teams can dismiss students from special education, parents are lulled to think their child is learning basic skills, and students progress towards graduation. The core component lost are the skills a student is supposed to have developed and demonstrated in the course.

Sounds like MCPS is doing a great job then.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I will never to this day not understand why MCPS doesn't do 100 grading system. No letters. No inflated block system. Stop padding kids and letting kids work the system

Just a number grade every quarter.
A final each semester counts for 10% of each semester grade.
One quiz retake each quarter and it divides the two grades
0.5 for honors classes
1.0 bump for AP if you get least a 3 on the AP exam
0.5 bump for AP you get a 1 or 2 on the AP exam or don't take

Because this is a bad idea. Kids are learning. Sure, you may have some pet experiment you want to conduct but this isn't really a problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the student gets an A or B then teachers don’t have to support a struggling student, school administrators are happy, IEP Teams can dismiss students from special education, parents are lulled to think their child is learning basic skills, and students progress towards graduation. The core component lost are the skills a student is supposed to have developed and demonstrated in the course.

Sounds like MCPS is doing a great job then.

How is MCPS, Churchill, or any other school doing a great job if students do not develop and demonstrate skills that they are supposed to learn in a class?

[Anonymous]

The main reason Churchill does so much better is it just has a larger high-achieving cohort than Wootton.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the student gets an A or B then teachers don’t have to support a struggling student, school administrators are happy, IEP Teams can dismiss students from special education, parents are lulled to think their child is learning basic skills, and students progress towards graduation. The core component lost are the skills a student is supposed to have developed and demonstrated in the course.

Sounds like MCPS is doing a great job then.

How is MCPS, Churchill, or any other school doing a great job if students do not develop and demonstrate skills that they are supposed to learn in a class?

If most of them are doing "A" quality work, then they have developed those skills, but clearly, you did not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will never to this day not understand why MCPS doesn't do 100 grading system. No letters. No inflated block system. Stop padding kids and letting kids work the system

Just a number grade every quarter.
A final each semester counts for 10% of each semester grade.
One quiz retake each quarter and it divides the two grades
0.5 for honors classes
1.0 bump for AP if you get least a 3 on the AP exam
0.5 bump for AP you get a 1 or 2 on the AP exam or don't take

Because this is a bad idea. Kids are learning. Sure, you may have some pet experiment you want to conduct but this isn't really a problem.

This is what many privates and other public school districts do.

MCPS inflated grading system, no averages, free retakes, full GPA point for “honors” courses, no finals, and no + and - grades are an anomaly. It is not preparing kids for college and adulthood

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will never to this day not understand why MCPS doesn't do 100 grading system. No letters. No inflated block system. Stop padding kids and letting kids work the system

Just a number grade every quarter.
A final each semester counts for 10% of each semester grade.
One quiz retake each quarter and it divides the two grades
0.5 for honors classes
1.0 bump for AP if you get least a 3 on the AP exam
0.5 bump for AP you get a 1 or 2 on the AP exam or don't take

Because this is a bad idea. Kids are learning. Sure, you may have some pet experiment you want to conduct but this isn't really a problem.

This is what many privates and other public school districts do.

MCPS inflated grading system, no averages, free retakes, full GPA point for “honors” courses, no finals, and no + and - grades are an anomaly. It is not preparing kids for college and adulthood

Sounds like MCPS is more interested in kids gaining mastery of the content whereas the others are more interested in artificial rankings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The main reason Churchill does so much better is it just has a larger high-achieving cohort than Wootton.

So true!