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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Definitely not coming back.

2 of ours are in college now, after graduating from MCPS, 1 still in an MCPS HS.  For the top kids, they know for every exam what they need for their A (can get a 59 on some assessment for example). For the bottom, they don't care.  So exam scores weren't good and that was bad optics for MCPS.

Because teachers give a rubric, kids are taught how to game the system - do the minimum to get the maximum[b]

Our college kids (one in private one at an OOS flagship) are doing great, one will to graduate summa cum laude amd the other expects to do the same.[/quote]

[b]That isn’t how rubrics work[/b].

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Yes, it is.  Kid has a 96.2, has an assessment worth 15% of their grade, they can and do, do the math, and figure out they need xx on the assessment and can skip the rest of the 10% homework assigments and still get an 89.6, which equals an A in MCPS.

Rubric lays it all out for them[/quote]

Umm those same percentages are laid out in course syllabi in college.  Students have been doing the math forever.  Heck, I had professors whose finals were optional just because of this.[/quote]

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