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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How is it fair when one fcps school grades things like homework, quizzes, classwork, along with 2-3 major assessments and a different school has 2-3 major assessments and that is the whole grade?[b] The former allows students the opportunity to increase a grade but the latter has no such buffer.[/b]

How is it fair when one fcps school allows retakes up to 100 and another only up to 80?

How is it fair when one fcps school allows students to do corrections on a test up to 100 while at home and another doesn't offer retakes at all?

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How is anything fair? Follow the rules of your school and if you know you only have 8 retakes, adjust. I don't care what my friend's kid in McLean is doing because my goal for my child is learning, not competition with the rest of the county. And what you are talking about in the bolded is, wait for it, grade inflation. Not learning.[/quote]

You sound silly.  PP was talking about whether one school only allows a student to increase their grade to a maximum 80% (vs. 100% at another school), not whether a student is allowed 8 retakes.

For a county that talks incessantly about equity, wildly different grading policies at different high schools makes no sense, especially knowing that college admissions officers may not be able to parse the distinctions.  [/quote]

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