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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Standards based grading" doesn't matter. It's just a communication style. No college is reading your 50 category standards based grading report, they just want your GPA an courses. [/quote]

Incorrect.  SBG lowers the GPA for high achieving students.  It matters.[/quote]

But is it more equitable?[/quote]

No, it is not more equitable. First, most schools in FCPS do not use sBG. Those students have many other assignments that can boost a grade. Schools with sBG do not. (Let’s be real, colleges look at school districts, too, not just the individual schools). Second, with sBG teachers are told what the grades should equate in words. At btsn my kid’s HS teacher said that a C is considered almost at mastery. She said she hates that but it’s required by the department and principals, so other schools give a B or B+ and this school gives a C. Third, there are no retakes; other schools have retakes.

The underlying idea is that it’s u fair to kids who can’t do HW bc they need to work or must watch younger siblings AND bc of one of those tasks, cannot do HW…so let’s not count that. How many kids do you think this affects?

What it does is help the lowest performing kids because instead of having 10 Fs for failing to do any work, they can take a test, get a c or D and pass the class. The problem with this is the preceding paragraph. 99.99% of the kids doing this, aren’t Doing it bc doing hw is a true impossibility.

It brings the top down and bottom up and smushes them together in the middle. Inequitably.[/quote]
The other poster seemed to think it was more equitable. I think you're just against equity.[/quote]

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