More skills based grading at madison hs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It should be noted that SBG may also solve the issue of global warming.

Instead of conventional thermometers that shows degrees from 70 to 110 in increments of 1, let's use new thermometers that have only four levels: 100, 90, 80, and 70 degrees.
Anything in between is rounded, but we'll change the rules a bit: 99.5 or more is rounded to 100, 99.5 to 89.5 is rounded to 90, 89.5 to 79.5 is rounded to 80, and anything else is rounded to 70.
In this way, those hot summer stretches are gone: maybe we'll get 100, but rarely.
And we'll have moderate weather, all year round. Problem solved.
Oh, and if a measurement doesn't turn out the way we want it, we'll just take it again until we measure what we'd like to see.

More trolling instead of discussing the actual policy. Yawn.

[Anonymous]

I thought it was funny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought it was funny.

Waste of everyone’s time. It wasn’t.

[Anonymous]

I thought the comment was funny as well. But seriously, instead of this back and forth bickering, what is everyone doing about SBG if they think it’s a complete fail? I can’t believe we are locked in this experiment on students. What is the plan going forward and if students/parents/ teachers dislike it, what can be done to change it back the way it was. I hate it as well but am at a loss as to how to get things back. My concerns fall on deaf ears at administration at Madison.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought the comment was funny as well. But seriously, instead of this back and forth bickering, what is everyone doing about SBG if they think it’s a complete fail? I can’t believe we are locked in this experiment on students. What is the plan going forward and if students/parents/ teachers dislike it, what can be done to change it back the way it was. I hate it as well but am at a loss as to how to get things back. My concerns fall on deaf ears at administration at Madison.

Of course your complaints fall on deaf ears. They don’t care what parents, teachers, or students think. FCPS is lead by outstanding professional educators. They know what is right and are going to proceed with their plans no matter what.

Who is going to stand in their way? The school board is the only stick that parents, teachers and students have to stop this nonsense. Let’s see what action the school board takes as SBG is rolled out county-wide.

[Anonymous]

I guess just show up at pta meetings and school board hearings. People wasted time at those over silly book discussions. There is nothing wrong with showing up to discuss grading. Maybe a petition can be filed. What other schools have SBG in high? Did Arlington ever implement SBG in high as well? What about the other neighboring jurisdictions?

I noticed the person who said it was so great for their son hasn't bothered to come back on for over a week and give any actual details. Probably just hoped their words wouldn't be challenged.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought the comment was funny as well. But seriously, instead of this back and forth bickering, what is everyone doing about SBG if they think it’s a complete fail? I can’t believe we are locked in this experiment on students. What is the plan going forward and if students/parents/ teachers dislike it, what can be done to change it back the way it was. I hate it as well but am at a loss as to how to get things back. My concerns fall on deaf ears at administration at Madison.

Of course your complaints fall on deaf ears. They don’t care what parents, teachers, or students think. FCPS is lead by outstanding professional educators. They know what is right and are going to proceed with their plans no matter what.

Who is going to stand in their way? The school board is the only stick that parents, teachers and students have to stop this nonsense. Let’s see what action the school board takes as SBG is rolled out county-wide.

Is it going to be county wide or just the AP schools? When is this taking place?

[Anonymous]

My child gets one grade a month for each class they are taking. They only have to show up one day a month to get a grade per class so maybe one and a half weeks a month. Could this possibly be one of the reasons why kids aren't attending school?

[Anonymous]

The temperature explanation is the most accurate description I’ve seen of the grading. If you don’t have kids at Madison, this is exactly what it is like. Yes it’s funny but also true.

[Anonymous]

Unless FCPS parents are willing to show up at SB meetings and speak up, this will become permanent at all FCPS schools. The goal is to eventually make grades meaningless and every student applies to college with a portfolio. Then, colleges are supposed to change in order to deal with their unprepared students. See Calvert’s latest message to parents this week where she mentions colleges changing grading practices and states check out Wormeli’s slide. Parents have been pushing back on this elsewhere in the country and winning, but they showed up and fought for their kids’ education. A change.org petition and parents’ FB page on this issue in FCPS is in the works.

Here is an article on this amazing and successful group of parents in Dublin, CA. If you scroll to the last part of the video, you can hear parents’ initial questions about SBG. Their change.org petition is truly inspiring.

https://www.mrctv.org/blog/evan-poellinger/switch-equity-based-grading-draws-parental-backlash

https://www.change.org/p/say-no-to-equity-grading-cohorts-at-dublin-unified-school-district

[Anonymous]

Also, I asked 1 of the top students at Madison for thoughts on SBG: student said “I think it allows kids to slack off.” I asked a student in the middle for thoughts: “I love it. It allows me to relax and slack off. Every time I see that P and realize it doesn’t count, I just relax because I’m not going to do it.”

From a teacher after some students refused to work: I can’t make them do anything

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also, I asked 1 of the top students at Madison for thoughts on SBG: student said “I think it allows kids to slack off.” I asked a student in the middle for thoughts: “I love it. It allows me to relax and slack off. Every time I see that P and realize it doesn’t count, I just relax because I’m not going to do it.”

From a teacher after some students refused to work: I can’t make them do anything

The only benefit I see to it is that teachers don't have to grade much and principals can more easily check boxes on skills taught as if the yearly sol type testing isn't enough. It's a system for lazy people from the principal to the teacher to the student.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unless FCPS parents are willing to show up at SB meetings and speak up, this will become permanent at all FCPS schools. The goal is to eventually make grades meaningless and every student applies to college with a portfolio. Then, colleges are supposed to change in order to deal with their unprepared students. See Calvert’s latest message to parents this week where she mentions colleges changing grading practices and states check out Wormeli’s slide. Parents have been pushing back on this elsewhere in the country and winning, but they showed up and fought for their kids’ education. A change.org petition and parents’ FB page on this issue in FCPS is in the works.

Here is an article on this amazing and successful group of parents in Dublin, CA. If you scroll to the last part of the video, you can hear parents’ initial questions about SBG. Their change.org petition is truly inspiring.

https://www.mrctv.org/blog/evan-poellinger/switch-equity-based-grading-draws-parental-backlash

https://www.change.org/p/say-no-to-equity-grading-cohorts-at-dublin-unified-school-district

The change.org petition is fantastic. What is the best way to get this out? I'd really like it to be non partisan.

[Anonymous]

I’ve already started an FB page for FCPS parents. I haven’t promoted it yet. Im going to promote the change.org petition there

[Anonymous]

I went ahead and said FCPS parents against SBG. I thought about saying “concerned” but most of us know this is not the education we want for our children. At this point saying you are concerned will just be an opening for principals to say they’ve listened to stakeholders and made changes. Exhibit A - at Madison, the principal listened then implemented a system designed for failing students in FCPS but now applied to all students at Madison.