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Anonymous wrote:What is a 10-point grading scale?

Every letter grade is 10 points including F. So instead of F being 0-59, it’s 50-59 like other letter grades

So is A now 90-100 because it has not been for some time. A has been 93-100. The fcps website still says this so this is all hogwash

https://www.fcps.edu/academics/grading-and-reporting/secondary/grading-scale

No, an A and A- is 90-100 and a B-, B, and B+ is 80-89. Current and next year district wide.

Hogwash? Read more carefully.

Then nothing has changed and it was unnecessary to include. Again, hogwash. Nothing to see here.

You have missed all the complaints about the (now no longer used in 2024) 4 point grading scale. That means you're clueless, not that this update is hogwash.

Our school is using the 4 point system this year

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is a 10-point grading scale?

Every letter grade is 10 points including F. So instead of F being 0-59, it’s 50-59 like other letter grades

So is A now 90-100 because it has not been for some time. A has been 93-100. The fcps website still says this so this is all hogwash

https://www.fcps.edu/academics/grading-and-reporting/secondary/grading-scale

No, an A and A- is 90-100 and a B-, B, and B+ is 80-89. Current and next year district wide.

Hogwash? Read more carefully.

Then nothing has changed and it was unnecessary to include. Again, hogwash. Nothing to see here.

You have missed all the complaints about the (now no longer used in 2024) 4 point grading scale. That means you're clueless, not that this update is hogwash.

Our school is using the 4 point system this year

Yes, but must change to 10 point scale for HS credit grades in 2025. Good luck to all college bound kids using SBG scale in 2023-2024.

[Anonymous]

Why couldn’t they just do away with the sbg scales? That was the change they should have made? No private school only grades assignments on a whole letter grade or by hidden standards no one can follow and that have been shown to cause entire school districts of children to fail.

[Anonymous]

Is Madison one of the schools keeping the 4 point scale for this year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is a 10-point grading scale?

Every letter grade is 10 points including F. So instead of F being 0-59, it’s 50-59 like other letter grades

So is A now 90-100 because it has not been for some time. A has been 93-100. The fcps website still says this so this is all hogwash

https://www.fcps.edu/academics/grading-and-reporting/secondary/grading-scale

No, an A and A- is 90-100 and a B-, B, and B+ is 80-89. Current and next year district wide.

Hogwash? Read more carefully.

Then nothing has changed and it was unnecessary to include. Again, hogwash. Nothing to see here.

You have missed all the complaints about the (now no longer used in 2024) 4 point grading scale. That means you're clueless, not that this update is hogwash.

Our school is using the 4 point system this year

High school?

Or elementary?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is Madison one of the schools keeping the 4 point scale for this year?

Yes. At least, this is what we were told at freshman orientation. It was discussed very briefly. The principal said she wasn’t going to go into the nuts and bolts of the grading system, but the teachers are ready, or at least most of them, and other schools are trying to copy Madison and that’s going to be a mess but Madison will be ok because they know what they are doing. There was nothing about training sessions for parents which was discussed in the spring. They are not going to provide any sort of forum for parents to ask questions because the answers would not withstand scrutiny. But then, it appears most parents at Madison don’t care anyway, because hardly any of them filled out the survey on the grading system sent out at the end of the year.

I can’t believe we are adopting a policy reserved for students in danger of not graduating for all students. Not the 4.0 scale, btw, I’m talking about the dropping/replacing quarter grades. Just why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is Madison one of the schools keeping the 4 point scale for this year?

Yes. At least, this is what we were told at freshman orientation. It was discussed very briefly. The principal said she wasn’t going to go into the nuts and bolts of the grading system, but the teachers are ready, or at least most of them, and other schools are trying to copy Madison and that’s going to be a mess but Madison will be ok because they know what they are doing. There was nothing about training sessions for parents which was discussed in the spring. They are not going to provide any sort of forum for parents to ask questions because the answers would not withstand scrutiny. But then, it appears most parents at Madison don’t care anyway, because hardly any of them filled out the survey on the grading system sent out at the end of the year.

I can’t believe we are adopting a policy reserved for students in danger of not graduating for all students. Not the 4.0 scale, btw, I’m talking about the dropping/replacing quarter grades. Just why?

Few parents care enough to learn the nitty gritty about real academics. They see a decent GreatSchools score, water cooler chat claims Madison is "well-regarded," and the sports are winning championships, so they throw caution to the wind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is Madison one of the schools keeping the 4 point scale for this year?

Yes. At least, this is what we were told at freshman orientation. It was discussed very briefly. The principal said she wasn’t going to go into the nuts and bolts of the grading system, but the teachers are ready, or at least most of them, and other schools are trying to copy Madison and that’s going to be a mess but Madison will be ok because they know what they are doing. There was nothing about training sessions for parents which was discussed in the spring. They are not going to provide any sort of forum for parents to ask questions because the answers would not withstand scrutiny. But then, it appears most parents at Madison don’t care anyway, because hardly any of them filled out the survey on the grading system sent out at the end of the year.

I can’t believe we are adopting a policy reserved for students in danger of not graduating for all students. Not the 4.0 scale, btw, I’m talking about the dropping/replacing quarter grades. Just why?

This is a bummer. The 4.0 thing was confusing and artificially lowered grades. I’m not sure why they are saying other schools will copy them when this is going away in 2024-2025.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is Madison one of the schools keeping the 4 point scale for this year?

Yes. At least, this is what we were told at freshman orientation. It was discussed very briefly. The principal said she wasn’t going to go into the nuts and bolts of the grading system, but the teachers are ready, or at least most of them, and other schools are trying to copy Madison and that’s going to be a mess but Madison will be ok because they know what they are doing. There was nothing about training sessions for parents which was discussed in the spring. They are not going to provide any sort of forum for parents to ask questions because the answers would not withstand scrutiny. But then, it appears most parents at Madison don’t care anyway, because hardly any of them filled out the survey on the grading system sent out at the end of the year.

I can’t believe we are adopting a policy reserved for students in danger of not graduating for all students. Not the 4.0 scale, btw, I’m talking about the dropping/replacing quarter grades. Just why?

Few parents care enough to learn the nitty gritty about real academics. They see a decent GreatSchools score, water cooler chat claims Madison is "well-regarded," and the sports are winning championships, so they throw caution to the wind.

They will care when it comes time to apply for college and have lower GPAs than anticipated.

[Anonymous]

OTOH the policy says retakes can be limited to students who got less than 80% and capped at 80, but some schools are overriding this and still allowing retakes for all up to 100%, so students at different schools are on a different footing.

[Anonymous]

I think the skills-based mastery + equity grading was developed to lower the amount of As and make failing impossible. At Madison, students aren’t retested on what they failed the first time. Instead, they just move on to the next thing and get “reassessed” on the skill when it comes up again. So “multiple chances of reassessment” means well, whatever they want it to mean. Last year, it meant all kinds of stuff. I think it’s fraud.

[Anonymous]

Why do they keep changing policies? They can’t even get the high schools on the same page? Get everyone working together before changing policies

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the skills-based mastery + equity grading was developed to lower the amount of As and make failing impossible. At Madison, students aren’t retested on what they failed the first time. Instead, they just move on to the next thing and get “reassessed” on the skill when it comes up again. So “multiple chances of reassessment” means well, whatever they want it to mean. Last year, it meant all kinds of stuff. I think it’s fraud.

Totally agree. Really disappointing that they are continuing this system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OTOH the policy says retakes can be limited to students who got less than 80% and capped at 80, but some schools are overriding this and still allowing retakes for all up to 100%, so students at different schools are on a different footing.

In my kids' HS some teachers limited retakes to students who got less than 80% and capped at 80 (math) and other teachers, in the same school, allowed retakes for all up to 100% (all other subjects). So it seems to be department/teacher dependent too.

[Anonymous]

^ math included AP Stats and all the computer programming classes too. They all fall under the math department.