Did you get a report card for your MCPS Elementary School kid yet?

[Anonymous]

70% correct on a test would not be a P, at least not at our school. It might be an I, but borderline N. So let's not exaggerate that C students are getting Ps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:70% correct on a test would not be a P, at least not at our school. It might be an I, but borderline N. So let's not exaggerate that C students are getting Ps.

Read carefully - no one is exaggerating that C students are getting P, its your own interpretation. I am just asking how much of the content has been mastered by students who get P? Maybe it is 80% of the content which would translate to a "B".

Hypothetically - if mastering 80% of content got you a P, then if 70 - 80 % of students were getting P on their report-cards it would mean that 70-80% of MCPS ES students were at least a B or above. Which is incredibly good show by MCPS don't you think?

And if this is the case - everything which we discuss in this forum - segregation of schools, HS students failing in Math finals, students being unprepared for schools etc. are not that big of an issue. MCPS is on the right track for majority of students. We will not see such epic fail in MS when these ES students land there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:70% correct on a test would not be a P, at least not at our school. It might be an I, but borderline N. So let's not exaggerate that C students are getting Ps.

Read carefully - no one is exaggerating that C students are getting P, its your own interpretation. I am just asking how much of the content has been mastered by students who get P? Maybe it is 80% of the content which would translate to a "B".

Hypothetically - if mastering 80% of content got you a P, then if 70 - 80 % of students were getting P on their report-cards it would mean that 70-80% of MCPS ES students were at least a B or above. Which is incredibly good show by MCPS don't you think?

And if this is the case - everything which we discuss in this forum - segregation of schools, HS students failing in Math finals, students being unprepared for schools etc. are not that big of an issue. MCPS is on the right track for majority of students. We will not see such epic fail in MS when these ES students land there.

You assume that the grade is based on mastering x<100% percent of content. What evidence do you have for this assumption? It's definitely not how I interpret the MCPS information about the report card.

And when you talk about 70-80% of students getting P on their report cards, what do you mean? That they get a P? That they get some Ps? That they get all Ps? That they get a P, or some Ps, or all Ps, for the end-of-year average for a subject area? And what evidence do you have for these percentages?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:70% correct on a test would not be a P, at least not at our school. It might be an I, but borderline N. So let's not exaggerate that C students are getting Ps.

Read carefully - no one is exaggerating that C students are getting P, its your own interpretation. I am just asking how much of the content has been mastered by students who get P? Maybe it is 80% of the content which would translate to a "B".

Hypothetically - if mastering 80% of content got you a P, then if 70 - 80 % of students were getting P on their report-cards it would mean that 70-80% of MCPS ES students were at least a B or above. Which is incredibly good show by MCPS don't you think?

And if this is the case - everything which we discuss in this forum - segregation of schools, HS students failing in Math finals, students being unprepared for schools etc. are not that big of an issue. MCPS is on the right track for majority of students. We will not see such epic fail in MS when these ES students land there.

Haven't you ever seen your child's graded work? I have seen plenty of my child's graded work, and I have stuffed Thursday folders with graded task assessments. No, 80% mastery (as demonstrated by 80% correct on a task assessment) would not qualify as a P. In my experience, with my child's school, in order to get a P, a child has to achieve 90% or more on a task assessment. And no, 70-80% of students were not getting P on task assessments. It was more like 40%, and sometimes as low as 25%. OTOH, my child attends a school where ES is very rarely given, and seems virtually impossible to achieve in math, where 100% on assessments always earned a P. Perhaps at schools that are more liberal with giving ES, there are 70-80% of students earning P.