Colleges Flagging MCPS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is so frustrating because each of my kids has at least one teacher who regularly give out Cs and Ds and do not care. What is admin going to do? They can’t fire them because there is no one else to teach the class. They are letting kids drop the class but my kids would actually like to take the classes so they are sticking it out but it’s ruining their GPA. It’s the inconsistency that drives me nuts.

teachers do not 'give out' grades.

NP here. What verb would you prefer she use? Assign? Issue? Unless you’re an idiot, the meaning is clear.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is so frustrating because each of my kids has at least one teacher who regularly give out Cs and Ds and do not care. What is admin going to do? They can’t fire them because there is no one else to teach the class. They are letting kids drop the class but my kids would actually like to take the classes so they are sticking it out but it’s ruining their GPA. It’s the inconsistency that drives me nuts.

teachers do not 'give out' grades.

NP here. What verb would you prefer she use? Assign? Issue? Unless you’re an idiot, the meaning is clear.

LOL PP.

I earned an A!
I got a B.
The teacher gave me a C.
The #$*& handed me a D...

[Anonymous]

Our school got rid of the 50% rule and hard grading. But, you cannot expect consistency in MCPS. Our principal is a joke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD came home today and told me that her teacher told her that grade inflation is really rampant in MCPS and that he is told to grade really leniently and that it is really hard for someone to fail. He says that it is so bad that colleges will flag an application once they see it is from MCPS and make sure to look deeper into what classes they took to see how rigorous it is to make sure they really deserved that 4.0 gpa. Not sure how true this is, has anyone else heard about this?

Huge difference between “not failing” and 4.0+ GPA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is so frustrating because each of my kids has at least one teacher who regularly give out Cs and Ds and do not care. What is admin going to do? They can’t fire them because there is no one else to teach the class. They are letting kids drop the class but my kids would actually like to take the classes so they are sticking it out but it’s ruining their GPA. It’s the inconsistency that drives me nuts.

teachers do not 'give out' grades.

NP here. What verb would you prefer she use? Assign? Issue? Unless you’re an idiot, the meaning is clear.

LOL PP.

I earned an A!
I got a B.
The teacher gave me a C.
The #$*& handed me a D...

lol. So true, the lower the grade, the more generous the teacher is 😂

[Anonymous]

Colleges also have grade inflation

[Anonymous]

My DD told me that her teacher said that other teachers babble about things they have no knowledge of.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is so frustrating because each of my kids has at least one teacher who regularly give out Cs and Ds and do not care. What is admin going to do? They can’t fire them because there is no one else to teach the class. They are letting kids drop the class but my kids would actually like to take the classes so they are sticking it out but it’s ruining their GPA. It’s the inconsistency that drives me nuts.

teachers do not 'give out' grades.

NP here. What verb would you prefer she use? Assign? Issue? Unless you’re an idiot, the meaning is clear.

LOL PP.

I earned an A!
I got a B.
The teacher gave me a C.
The #$*& handed me a D...

This is accurate because no one in MCPS needs a sentence to express the concept of failing a class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD came home today and told me that her teacher told her that grade inflation is really rampant in MCPS and that he is told to grade really leniently and that it is really hard for someone to fail. He says that it is so bad that colleges will flag an application once they see it is from MCPS and make sure to look deeper into what classes they took to see how rigorous it is to make sure they really deserved that 4.0 gpa. Not sure how true this is, has anyone else heard about this?

I have been told that we need to do more to set our students apart when we write a rec letter. That is because so many of our kids are graduating with extremely high (above 4.5) weighted GPAs. This makes he GPA meaningless. Colleges cannot tell between the solid all As student and the student who routinely has mix of As and Bs but in the right sequence to be all As at semester break.

I have also been told by a friend who works with freshman at UMD that advisors need to tell students that the 50% rule does not exist in college, they do not have retakes, and the due date is the deadline period.

My former MCPS kid is at UMD right now, and based on my kid's experience, it's not at all true that "the due date is the deadline period". Also, there are a lot of former MCPS kids at UMD.

Yeah that stuck out as untrue to my college experience, but then my fourth grade teacher told me we'd have to write in cursive in middle school; exaggerating to kids about what the next level is like it's an age old tradition.

My Spanish teacher told me the final exam was going to be oral and administered by a Cuban lady from downtown. Then I went to parent-teacher teacher night and she bragged about lying to the kids about that to scare them straight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD came home today and told me that her teacher told her that grade inflation is really rampant in MCPS and that he is told to grade really leniently and that it is really hard for someone to fail. He says that it is so bad that colleges will flag an application once they see it is from MCPS and make sure to look deeper into what classes they took to see how rigorous it is to make sure they really deserved that 4.0 gpa. Not sure how true this is, has anyone else heard about this?

I have been told that we need to do more to set our students apart when we write a rec letter. That is because so many of our kids are graduating with extremely high (above 4.5) weighted GPAs. This makes he GPA meaningless. Colleges cannot tell between the solid all As student and the student who routinely has mix of As and Bs but in the right sequence to be all As at semester break.

I have also been told by a friend who works with freshman at UMD that advisors need to tell students that the 50% rule does not exist in college, they do not have retakes, and the due date is the deadline period.

My former MCPS kid is at UMD right now, and based on my kid's experience, it's not at all true that "the due date is the deadline period". Also, there are a lot of former MCPS kids at UMD.

Yeah that stuck out as untrue to my college experience, but then my fourth grade teacher told me we'd have to write in cursive in middle school; exaggerating to kids about what the next level is like it's an age old tradition.

I am curious how my son will learn to sign his name. I didn’t even think that far ahead. I guess just scribbles will suffice.

The entire point of a signature is for it to be a unique scribble that's hard to copy. Writing it in a standard cursive form completely defeats the purpose.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Colleges also have grade inflation

The Ivys have grade inflation, state schools don’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Colleges also have grade inflation

The Ivys have grade inflation, state schools don’t.

My kid's state school (UMD) sure seems to have grade inflation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Colleges also have grade inflation

The Ivys have grade inflation, state schools don’t.

My kid's state school (UMD) sure seems to have grade inflation.

how so?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is so frustrating because each of my kids has at least one teacher who regularly give out Cs and Ds and do not care. What is admin going to do? They can’t fire them because there is no one else to teach the class. They are letting kids drop the class but my kids would actually like to take the classes so they are sticking it out but it’s ruining their GPA. It’s the inconsistency that drives me nuts.

teachers do not 'give out' grades.

NP here. What verb would you prefer she use? Assign? Issue? Unless you’re an idiot, the meaning is clear.

LOL PP.

I earned an A!
I got a B.
The teacher gave me a C.
The #$*& handed me a D...

How is “gave” different from “give out”?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD came home today and told me that her teacher told her that grade inflation is really rampant in MCPS and that he is told to grade really leniently and that it is really hard for someone to fail. He says that it is so bad that colleges will flag an application once they see it is from MCPS and make sure to look deeper into what classes they took to see how rigorous it is to make sure they really deserved that 4.0 gpa. Not sure how true this is, has anyone else heard about this?

I have been told that we need to do more to set our students apart when we write a rec letter. That is because so many of our kids are graduating with extremely high (above 4.5) weighted GPAs. This makes he GPA meaningless. Colleges cannot tell between the solid all As student and the student who routinely has mix of As and Bs but in the right sequence to be all As at semester break.

I have also been told by a friend who works with freshman at UMD that advisors need to tell students that the 50% rule does not exist in college, they do not have retakes, and the due date is the deadline period.

My former MCPS kid is at UMD right now, and based on my kid's experience, it's not at all true that "the due date is the deadline period". Also, there are a lot of former MCPS kids at UMD.

I don't know about UMD, but I have had some kids shocked that their MC professor for dual enrollment would not take late work.

yup, MC prof here, I do not take late work. But it probably varies prof to prof. STEM profs know if you get behind, you will never catch up. Our dual enrollment students though, handle it better than our