Colleges Flagging MCPS?

[Anonymous]

They need to have A+, A-, B+, B-, etc

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Grade inflation is worse in Fairfax from what I hear. Every test with a grade below an A can be retaken. Not sure why that’s not getting more outrage.

Actually, they need to score below 80%

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

[Anonymous]

Is the goal of school to have students learn and demonstrate learning? If so, does it matter if there's a retake?

[Anonymous]

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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?

Competitive colleges have always done this, and do it for all schools and all school districts.

It's true that MCPS makes it difficult for top students to differentiate themselves (if everyone has a 4.0, it's hard to set yourself apart from the crowd). But colleges always take a close look at course rigor--in fact, at info sessions, they'll tell you that course rigor (APs over honors over regular courses) is more important to them than GPA. That is probably even more true in MCPS, where so many kids have 4.0s or close-to-4.0s.

This also means that 'weighted GPA' is irrelevant in MCPS. AP courses are much harder than Honors, and get the same GPA bump.

MCPS really needs to fix this. Especially since the district has implemented the "Honors-for-all" model in many of its high schools.

It should at minimum be a .5 bump vs. 1.0 bump.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is the goal of school to have students learn and demonstrate learning? If so, does it matter if there's a retake?

It matters because it makes my child look less competitive.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is the goal of school to have students learn and demonstrate learning? If so, does it matter if there's a retake?

It matters because it makes my child look less competitive.

DP. The bigger problem is that kids can score low and still get an A. In what works is a 79.5 plus 89.5 an A?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is the goal of school to have students learn and demonstrate learning? If so, does it matter if there's a retake?

It matters because it makes my child look less competitive.

DP. The bigger problem is that kids can score low and still get an A. In what works is a 79.5 plus 89.5 an A?

In the world where people learn about rounding up.
Try it

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is the goal of school to have students learn and demonstrate learning? If so, does it matter if there's a retake?

It matters because it makes my child look less competitive.

DP. The bigger problem is that kids can score low and still get an A. In what works is a 79.5 plus 89.5 an A?

In the world where people learn about rounding up.
Try it

Even if you round up, that is an 85, which is a B.

[Anonymous]

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?

Competitive colleges have always done this, and do it for all schools and all school districts.

It's true that MCPS makes it difficult for top students to differentiate themselves (if everyone has a 4.0, it's hard to set yourself apart from the crowd). But colleges always take a close look at course rigor--in fact, at info sessions, they'll tell you that course rigor (APs over honors over regular courses) is more important to them than GPA. That is probably even more true in MCPS, where so many kids have 4.0s or close-to-4.0s.

This also means that 'weighted GPA' is irrelevant in MCPS. AP courses are much harder than Honors, and get the same GPA bump.

Most colleges reweight grades to give APs a larger grade bump than honors

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Is the goal of school to have students learn and demonstrate learning? If so, does it matter if there's a retake?

It matters because it makes my child look less competitive.

DP. The bigger problem is that kids can score low and still get an A. In what works is a 79.5 plus 89.5 an A?

In the world where people learn about rounding up.
Try it

Even if you round up, that is an 85, which is a B.

Any .5 is rounded up.
A 79.5 for MP1 rounds to an 80, which is a B, or 3 quality points.
An 89.5 for MP2 rounds to a 90, which is an A, or 4 quality points.
For a total of 7 quality points for the semester, divided by 2 is 3.5, which rounds up to 4, which is an A.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Grade inflation is worse in Fairfax from what I hear. Every test with a grade below an A can be retaken. Not sure why that’s not getting more outrage.

Actually, they need to score below 80%

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

They do. You may have even heard about the 50% rule which was canceled recently.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is the goal of school to have students learn and demonstrate learning? If so, does it matter if there's a retake?

It matters because it makes my child look less competitive.

DP. The bigger problem is that kids can score low and still get an A. In what works is a 79.5 plus 89.5 an A?

In the world where people learn about rounding up.
Try it

Even if you round up, that is an 85, which is a B.

Any .5 is rounded up.
A 79.5 for MP1 rounds to an 80, which is a B, or 3 quality points.
An 89.5 for MP2 rounds to a 90, which is an A, or 4 quality points.
For a total of 7 quality points for the semester, divided by 2 is 3.5, which rounds up to 4, which is an A.

That seems fair. Maybe these kids need to sign up for harder classes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is the goal of school to have students learn and demonstrate learning? If so, does it matter if there's a retake?

It matters because it makes my child look less competitive.

DP. The bigger problem is that kids can score low and still get an A. In what works is a 79.5 plus 89.5 an A?

In the world where people learn about rounding up.
Try it

Even if you round up, that is an 85, which is a B.

See, you're a troll. You showed that you don't know how grades are attributed in MCPS.
Move along.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is the goal of school to have students learn and demonstrate learning? If so, does it matter if there's a retake?

It matters because it makes my child look less competitive.

DP. The bigger problem is that kids can score low and still get an A. In what works is a 79.5 plus 89.5 an A?

In the world where people learn about rounding up.
Try it

Even if you round up, that is an 85, which is a B.

See, you're a troll. You showed that you don't know how grades are attributed in MCPS.
Move along.

You seem like the troll here. The PP was correct. 79.5 + 89.5 in the grade book would average out to 85, which would be a B on their report card.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is the goal of school to have students learn and demonstrate learning? If so, does it matter if there's a retake?

It matters because it makes my child look less competitive.

DP. The bigger problem is that kids can score low and still get an A. In what works is a 79.5 plus 89.5 an A?

In the world where people learn about rounding up.
Try it

Even if you round up, that is an 85, which is a B.

See, you're a troll. You showed that you don't know how grades are attributed in MCPS.
Move along.

You seem like the troll here. The PP was correct. 79.5 + 89.5 in the grade book would average out to 85, which would be a B on their report card.

They may be complaining about the doubtful case where a student has a 79.5+ for one semester and an 89.5 for the next and would get an A. Sure, it's possible, but this is not really a serious concern, so they're just trolling...