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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in a middle class neighborhood of single family homes. Last year, our neighborhood school bus-stop had five students (all boys) in the 3rd grade.  They had grown up together, the moms were friends and occasionally had coffee together.  Three of the students had got into the magnet HGC program, one was moving to another neighborhood and one was continuing on the home school. The home school student was Hispanic.  The mom was feeling very sad that her son had not got into HGC program.  She said that her son was getting all "P"s, just like every other student.

I told her that actually the "P" means nothing. It is a range of scores from 50-100% and that it is meaningless. She asked why would MCPS do that?  She said that she would prefer that her son got home the correct measure of where he stood in all subjects. Not only a grade card that had A, B, C and D, but a grade card that gave his results in percentage.

Why would MCPS not consider that? The gap in knowledge is minimal in Elementary Schools.  If MCPS was honest with the parents where exactly the students were behind in the elementary levels then it would be easy to fill those gaps.   [/quote]

This has nothing to do with closing the achievement gap. It's a simple poor grading system. Why would MCPS use such system? Who really knows... MCPS is beyond stupid.  [/quote]

Yes, it will shrink the achievement gap.  Even parents without higher education can help their students at lower grades with homework and their studies.  This can only happen if they are given accurate measurements of where their kids are.  If they are thinking that their child is doing as well as the next child because they have a "P" like everyone else they will never intervene. If they know that the kid is at a 50% then they have an incentive to really help their child out. If the lament is always that the parents are not involved, then why make it harder for them to be involved and contribute while they have the ability to. [/quote]

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