Explain how grades are inflated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I constantly see people talk about how MCPS inflates grades and makes things too easy, but many private schools—both local and national—have similar, if not identical, grading scales. Retakes aren’t that common either. Maybe it’s just my kid’s school, but it seems normal to me. Maybe there’s something I’m missing. Thanks!

they are all inflated. My brother went to NYU like 40 years ago and back then they weighted grades and bell curved grades.

Literally if professor bell curved and did weighting so only 10 percent could get an A, 40 percent a B, 40 percent a C and 10 a percent a F if ten people took a test and scores were as follows this would be grades if one person got 100, four people got 99, four people got 98 ad one person got a 97.

100 - A
99 - B
98 - C
97 - F

today at NYU all ten of the students would get an A.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why not all retakes but give them as a HW grade? That’s what my kid’s private school does. They learn the material but it doesn’t teach them that the first assessment is a try out.

The retakes essentially fall within the 10% of the grade that homework falls into. And in deer to qualify for a retake you have to have demonstrated that you did additional study. It’s not really any different when it comes to pints in the grade. And by requiring a retake instead of turning in homework you ensure it’s actual mastery because there’s no possibility of assistance with the retake.

So teachers should be run ragged instead? Ridiculous. There are no retakes on college so why give them in HS?

[Anonymous]

My DD legitimately had an A in HS Spanish. Many other kids had B, like even 86-87%. At end of semester, teacher gave those kids some "extra credit work" and bumped them to A's. This waters down the A's that were truly earned.

Constant curves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD legitimately had an A in HS Spanish. Many other kids had B, like even 86-87%. At end of semester, teacher gave those kids some "extra credit work" and bumped them to A's. This waters down the A's that were truly earned.

Constant curves.

Things that never happened, for $200 Alex!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Over half of last year's senior class at Churchill had a 4.51 or higher.

https://drive.google.com/...tewQp/view


60% are over 4.0 at BCC ,

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RuP2fKPN3GGr9N6qEq6b5jEdOawRaKox/view?usp=drivesdk

If 74% of students attend 4 year colleges then the majority of college bound are 4.0 or higher.

Well I don’t know how grades are getting inflated but, with numbers like this, it’s pretty clear it’s happening in a big way

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Over half of last year's senior class at Churchill had a 4.51 or higher.

https://drive.google.com/...tewQp/view


60% are over 4.0 at BCC ,

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RuP2fKPN3GGr9N6qEq6b5jEdOawRaKox/view?usp=drivesdk

If 74% of students attend 4 year colleges then the majority of college bound are 4.0 or higher.

Well I don’t know how grades are getting inflated but, with numbers like this, it’s pretty clear it’s happening in a big way

They don’t even release that data for Whitman so the numbers must be eyepopping.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Over half of last year's senior class at Churchill had a 4.51 or higher.

https://drive.google.com/...tewQp/view


60% are over 4.0 at BCC ,

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RuP2fKPN3GGr9N6qEq6b5jEdOawRaKox/view?usp=drivesdk

If 74% of students attend 4 year colleges then the majority of college bound are 4.0 or higher.

Well I don’t know how grades are getting inflated but, with numbers like this, it’s pretty clear it’s happening in a big way

Well, it tells me you're clueless

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Over half of last year's senior class at Churchill had a 4.51 or higher.

https://drive.google.com/...tewQp/view


60% are over 4.0 at BCC ,

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RuP2fKPN3GGr9N6qEq6b5jEdOawRaKox/view?usp=drivesdk

If 74% of students attend 4 year colleges then the majority of college bound are 4.0 or higher.

Well I don’t know how grades are getting inflated but, with numbers like this, it’s pretty clear it’s happening in a big way

It’s cutthroat at Churchill. Many kids are not getting into UMD CP because of the competitiveness.

Grade inflation there is real. So many kids with 4.0. So many kids taking APs inflating the weighted GPAs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Over half of last year's senior class at Churchill had a 4.51 or higher.

https://drive.google.com/...tewQp/view


60% are over 4.0 at BCC ,

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RuP2fKPN3GGr9N6qEq6b5jEdOawRaKox/view?usp=drivesdk

If 74% of students attend 4 year colleges then the majority of college bound are 4.0 or higher.

Well I don’t know how grades are getting inflated but, with numbers like this, it’s pretty clear it’s happening in a big way

Is it just me or does the Churchill link not work for others? The BCC link is fine.

[Anonymous]

Here’s the thing- I’ve worked at different types of elementary schools- one fed into Seneca Valley and one fed into Whitman. The quality of work that was turned in was so vastly superior at the Whitman feeder school. It was like night and day. Kids were given the same assignment and same teaching and same rubric, yet the work completed was light years apart.

When you have a very educated parent population and combine them with almost exclusively competitive peers (like most private schools), the work that is being done will be superior.

I fell believe that the students earning over a 4.0 at Churchill/Whitman etc… really are working harder and turning in more work than students earning lower GPA’s at other schools. I do not believe it is due to grade inflation.

All MCPS schools have built in inflation like the honors for all pathways, but I do not believe it is worse at some schools than others. And yes, I do believe that parents push for higher grades, but that doesn’t mean the teachers back down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why not all retakes but give them as a HW grade? That’s what my kid’s private school does. They learn the material but it doesn’t teach them that the first assessment is a try out.

What does it mean that retakes are a HW grade?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why not all retakes but give them as a HW grade? That’s what my kid’s private school does. They learn the material but it doesn’t teach them that the first assessment is a try out.

The retakes essentially fall within the 10% of the grade that homework falls into. And in deer to qualify for a retake you have to have demonstrated that you did additional study. It’s not really any different when it comes to pints in the grade. And by requiring a retake instead of turning in homework you ensure it’s actual mastery because there’s no possibility of assistance with the retake.

That is not the case for us. You can retake and take the higher grade, but don't need to demonstrate you studied. Though you probably did in order to get the higher grade.

When you say your kid needs to demonstrate that they studied to do the retake, what does that mean?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD legitimately had an A in HS Spanish. Many other kids had B, like even 86-87%. At end of semester, teacher gave those kids some "extra credit work" and bumped them to A's. This waters down the A's that were truly earned.

Constant curves.

Extra credit is not allowed per the MCPS grading policy. Try again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Over half of last year's senior class at Churchill had a 4.51 or higher.

https://drive.google.com/...tewQp/view


60% are over 4.0 at BCC ,

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RuP2fKPN3GGr9N6qEq6b5jEdOawRaKox/view?usp=drivesdk

If 74% of students attend 4 year colleges then the majority of college bound are 4.0 or higher.

Well I don’t know how grades are getting inflated but, with numbers like this, it’s pretty clear it’s happening in a big way

It’s cutthroat at Churchill. Many kids are not getting into UMD CP because of the competitiveness.

Grade inflation there is real. So many kids with 4.0. So many kids taking APs inflating the weighted GPAs.

Colleges only take so many kids from a h high school. This is why you are better off at a non-w or rich school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Over half of last year's senior class at Churchill had a 4.51 or higher.

https://drive.google.com/...tewQp/view


60% are over 4.0 at BCC ,

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RuP2fKPN3GGr9N6qEq6b5jEdOawRaKox/view?usp=drivesdk

If 74% of students attend 4 year colleges then the majority of college bound are 4.0 or higher.

Well I don’t know how grades are getting inflated but, with numbers like this, it’s pretty clear it’s happening in a big way

They don’t even release that data for Whitman so the numbers must be eyepopping.

How do they justify releasing the grade distribution data for every school EXCEPT Whitman?