Do you care about how semester grades will show up on your kids' transcript? Email the BOE ASAP

[Anonymous]

I heard how 11 students were all on a call together working on their math test that was counted in q3 grades. So cheating is now included in q3 grades so it really needs to be pass/fail for the semester grade.

[Anonymous]

Why can't they use the 3rd quarter grades as they were when schools closed? Wouldn't that be fair?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why can't they use the 3rd quarter grades as they were when schools closed? Wouldn't that be fair?

Why would that be any more fair?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why can't they use the 3rd quarter grades as they were when schools closed? Wouldn't that be fair?

Why would that be any more fair?

I thought the concern was that kids couldn't tune in once schools closed. So the grades they had before closure could work. Why wouldn't they?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why can't they use the 3rd quarter grades as they were when schools closed? Wouldn't that be fair?

Why would that be any more fair?

I thought the concern was that kids couldn't tune in once schools closed. So the grades they had before closure could work. Why wouldn't they?

wasn't the quarter almost over anyway??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why can't they use the 3rd quarter grades as they were when schools closed? Wouldn't that be fair?

Why would that be any more fair?

I thought the concern was that kids couldn't tune in once schools closed. So the grades they had before closure could work. Why wouldn't they?

wasn't the quarter almost over anyway??

"Almost" is the operative word. There were quizzes tests forthcoming that kids were preparing for that did not happen. Instead stuff got switched to online, and there were winners and losers in the online 3rd quarter quiz game.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If they don't count Q3 grades for GPA, that's an outrage. It's a huge disservice and unfair.

Remember, too, that current HS students don't get to opt out of MS language and other advanced classes counting toward their GPA. They've made it optional for subsequent years, but if you're going to count 6th grade Spanish for GPA, you damn well better count the grades he got in AP and honors classes as a sophomore.

Maybe you were at a school where the end of Q3 went well, but at my school the kids had tests that had a significant impact on grades after 4 weeks of no instruction. There's unfairness lurking in many of the Q3 grades, too. If your kid was not harmed in the 3rd quarter, you are blessed.

The teachers were not allowed to lower their grades from where they were on March 13th, when school closed. So this scenario didn't happen. If it did, you should contact the school.

At my middle school, where things are counted on percentages, the teachers did not doctor the grades coming off of quizzes - so if a kid did poorly (like an A student getting a low B), the grade counted - leniency didn't matter so long as they weren't earning a D or E for the quarter. So, I don't know how that's lenient or fair for a 11/12/13 year old who hadn't had live instruction in 4 weeks. For the 8th graders, it's just like high school grades for advanced classes. Cut the kids some slack.

[Anonymous]

Carroll County has the same policy. Don’t most school systems?

[Anonymous]

Well God forbid one of our children ever gets one iota less than what they are due from the universe.

[Anonymous]

Right, so just give Credit/No Credit or Pass/Incomplete for the 2nd Semester and call it over. HYP will understand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Right, so just give Credit/No Credit or Pass/Incomplete for the 2nd Semester and call it over. HYP will understand.

Of course, they will. Harvard did the same thing basically: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/03/harvard-college-adopts-temporary-grading-policy-for-spring-term/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Right, so just give Credit/No Credit or Pass/Incomplete for the 2nd Semester and call it over. HYP will understand.

Of course, they will. Harvard did the same thing basically: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/03/harvard-college-adopts-temporary-grading-policy-for-spring-term/

Peer institutions, such as Dartmouth, Stanford, Yale, Columbia, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , have moved to similar grading policies for their spring terms. Factoring equity as a prime motivator, Gay said: “[F]or some students the challenges have been more severe. Some have seen parent job losses, or have had to take over child care and other household responsibilities, as health care and other essential workers in their families continue to provide critical support or have become ill themselves. Those who relied on the public library for internet access are struggling to find other ways to join their classmates online, as public buildings are ordered closed. Students in a time zone 12 hours away from us are feeling remote and closed off by time, and by closed borders.”

[Anonymous]

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History indicates they’ll err on the side of grade inflation.

So no worries, parents of seniors.

You mean like ALL the private schools? ALLways?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Right, so just give Credit/No Credit or Pass/Incomplete for the 2nd Semester and call it over. HYP will understand.

Of course, they will. Harvard did the same thing basically: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/03/harvard-college-adopts-temporary-grading-policy-for-spring-term/

Peer institutions, such as Dartmouth, Stanford, Yale, Columbia, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , have moved to similar grading policies for their spring terms. Factoring equity as a prime motivator, Gay said: “[F]or some students the challenges have been more severe. Some have seen parent job losses, or have had to take over child care and other household responsibilities, as health care and other essential workers in their families continue to provide critical support or have become ill themselves. Those who relied on the public library for internet access are struggling to find other ways to join their classmates online, as public buildings are ordered closed. Students in a time zone 12 hours away from us are feeling remote and closed off by time, and by closed borders.”

Yes, all this happened after the schools shut down or are happening now. Didn’t impact Q3 grades and shouldn’t mean they are not used. Give kids a choice.

[Anonymous]

Give kids choice. 3rd quarter grade or Pass/Fail. How is that unfair to anyone? My straight A kid got B 3rd quarter was expecting to pull up 4th quarter as has done before. So I am not suggesting option to benefit my own kid. I am just not understanding how giving the kids a choice would disadvantage anyone. It seems to me that saying after the fact that the 3rd quarter grades do not count is a bad call. No problem telling now for 4th quarter that it is Pass/Fail, not opposed to either method but do not like the after the fact component of 3rd quarter. The whole thing seems like a no brainer.