FCPS Grading Scale in 2024-2025

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Anonymous wrote:Let's hope. I've considered moving for this reason and plan to vote against the current school board because of it. Republicans brought in fairgrade and the current school system has managed to sabotage that. If they can't make fairgrade work across all assignments, then there will be a lot of people moving out of the district eventually.

Please do move.

Megan McLaughlin--a longstanding Democratic endorsed SB member- was the president of Fairgrade.

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent of a 8th grader, I am a bit confused about the move on grading scale system of FCPS in next school year: There will be only 100 point scale, no 4 scale will be used (?). So, how the kids GPA will be for college applications? Thanks.

That is for classroom teachers to calculate quarter grades. It has nothing to do with GPA. GPA calculations will remain the same. If your kid gets an A for the final grade, that will still be a 4.0.

So 80-89 will now be flat B and no B- or B+ and so just 3.0 and not 3.5 when doing GPA? As are anything 90 and above? To determine if a kids is too 10% of class, so if 100 kids with 4.0, they go back to see if one was 100%, others are 98% or 95% or 90% and do the cutoff by percents?

From where are you getting that idea? FCPS will still have A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, etc.

+1 they are basically banning the 4,3,2,1 standards based grades by teachers for the quarter that some schools have tried recently. All the 10 point scale means is that you won’t need to worry about standards based grading. It’s the normal scale most schools use now.

No, not true. I just attended an SBG session at our middle school last night. Our middle school is requiring all teachers to use SBG and instead of using the 4 point scale they have to translate it to the 100 point scale. So you can only get an A with a 100%. Any amount lower is a "3" and a B - I think it's 86%. A "2" equates to a 72%.

It's crazy town. And of course my kid is taking his first two high school credit classes this year under this system. They are still using rolling gradebook and offering retakes, but teachers can also replace grades as they feel appropriate if they think the student now understands each standard fully. Gives the teacher so much power. I really dislike it.

This was all straight from our principal's mouth.

Yes, this is how it is at Madison

Nope, it worse there. No retake and teachers can’t just replace grades as they feel appropriate. A second assessment replaces only the preceding one if its higher.

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent of a 8th grader, I am a bit confused about the move on grading scale system of FCPS in next school year: There will be only 100 point scale, no 4 scale will be used (?). So, how the kids GPA will be for college applications? Thanks.

The change is being made to help close the achievement gap.

As far as college admissions go, the practical result will be to help those students from lower SES backgrounds, who often tend to be BIPOC, while curtailing some of the unearned privilege traditionally enjoyed by other students.

This change in grading should narrow the achievement gap and college admissions gap from both ends: the top and the bottom.

I don’t get it- so giving higher grades to those who don’t earn it? Is that what this means? If I were a POC I would be offended if someone wanted to give me something I didn’t earn. Do POC get offended for getting something they didn’t earn? I’m curious.

Do white people? Just curious?