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Reply to "PG has lost its mind with the new grading policy."
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I looked at it and it isn't great. I'm not sure if it is out of line with other districts. Previously they gave numerical grades for the quarter grades and then averaged those for the final grade. So if a student had a 81,81,71,71 for the 4 quarters they would end up with an average grade of 76 and a C. New policy is letter grades for each quarter which are then averaged so that kid would have a B, B, C, C and end up with a B at the end of the year. This could really impact the kids at the top of the class who are in the running for valedictorian etc. [/quote] When I taught in Baltimore County in the early 2000s, the averaging of letter grades was how it was done. We were encouraged to give kids who failed the first two quarters Ds the 3rd quarter so they would be motivated to pass. So a kid could definitely get 0s the first 3 quarters and a C the last quarter and pass a class. [/quote]
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