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[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

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]

You don't have to be summa cum laude to figure the math. My 2.98 kid at an OOS flagship has done the same.

The middle kids (like mine) would have cared. Mine only took 1 final in MCPS -- a foreign language exam at the end of 6th grade. I was helping her study and she clearly didn't understand what was going to be tested. It would have been nice to have seen a grade (all we got was the grade that was put on the report card).

It was only a few AP courses in HS that acted as a final. Like I said, "middle kids". She wasn't overloaded with APs or IBs, but did take a few. Unfortunately, the Covid APs in 2020 were not a good measure of a final. [/quote]

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