How does new semester grading work?

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Anonymous wrote:My high school currently has 1,000 E grades with 50% or lower.

We are hoping this is a wake up call / FAFO moment for the students. We’ll see. So many students just put the bare minimum in and it has been a lifelong habit enabled by MCPS and parents.

Students may have a poor work ethic, but to the best of my knowledge MCPS has never provided direct instruction on study/executive functioning skills.

Why doesn’t MCPS offer a study skills/exec functioning class? Even as an elective or after school or summer school or something?

+1 this should be a semester long required class freshman year.

They did used to have a class like this for freshmen called Connections. This was 5-10 years ago.

We still offer that at my HS

Have you seen positive results from the students enrolled?

I am still a first year teacher so i do not have enough personal experience or data to answer that question. I imagine it works enough to keep offering it.