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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought they got rid of them because too many students failed them. [/quote]

No, the reason was that many students had inflated grades in the two quarters, but failed the final exam and still ended up with A's.

Earlier policy was that two A's out of three scores (Q1, Q2 and Final) make an A.   Since final exam was administered by MCPS central office,  the students who were given easy A's by teachers in two quarters at the school,  could fail the final exam (which was unbiased) but still get an A.

Now there is grade inflation because students are being given easy A's in two quarters and there is no final exam to test their knowledge. As a result they are doing poorly in other standardized exams ranging from MAPs, PARCC, SATs to APs.

My proposal would be a good compromise because it would allow students to be tested for grasp of content knowledge (final exam), as well as allow them to recover from doing poorly in any one quarter because only 1 best score out of both quarters would be considered.

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