Why doesn't FCPS give A+?
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Anonymous
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I was looking at FCPS grading scale - https://www.fcps.edu/academics/grading-and-reporting/secondary/grading-scale
Why is there no A+? |
Anonymous
| Who cares? To give you Karen's something to bitch about. |
Anonymous
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You can’t get higher than 100.
There is also no D- Why does it matter? |
Anonymous
| It doesn’t matter to me either, but an A+ means a perfect score. So it doesn’t have to be higher than 100. An A is any score in the A grade range. |
Anonymous
| Interesting. In LCPS, A+ is 98-100. Don’t know if I have an opinion either way, but weird that it’s not standardized. |
Anonymous
| Maybe you should start a group called Farigrade so FCPS can match LCPS and others who give A+'s. |
Anonymous
| To calculate GPA which is on a 4.0 scale |
Anonymous
| In Arlington a 90 is an A and in FCPS a 93 is an A. Each school district develops what they think is appropriate. You aren't going to get uniformity. I personally don't want my kids worrying if they get a 96 percent vs. a 98 percent. |
Anonymous
| I’m so glad if that’s true, that they don’t report an A+ on a transcript, just an A. Otherwise that would be yet one more thing high schoolers would be pressured (self and/or parental) to try to achieve. I’ve only seen A’s on our DDs’, but I don’t think any of them would have been a perfect A, and they didn’t need to worry about the difference. |
Anonymous
| It doesn’t matter that much. Really. Colleges get a copy of the grading scale along with the transcript, so they know that an Arlington A could be a B elsewhere, and that a Fairfax A could be up to 100%. It doesn’t need to be a competition to be perfect. |
Anonymous
| I don't think A+s are a common practice in schools. At least, none of the schools I or my children have gone to use them. |
Anonymous
| I attended a school district that counted 100% as an A+. I had a new teacher for biology who put extra credit questions on every quiz. My grade at the end of the first quarter was 108%, but she refused to give me an A+, even though that was the grade I had earned, other kids in that class got the full extra credit boost to their lower grades, and other teachers would give an A+ to their students. Her reasoning was that no one is truly perfect. It’s probably better to have a policy that ensures that everyone is treated equally. |
Anonymous
| omg do you realize how inflated grades are anyway? |