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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is the goal of school to have students learn and demonstrate learning? If so, does it matter if there's a retake?[/quote]

It matters because it makes my child look less competitive. [/quote]

DP. The bigger problem is that kids can score low and still get an A. In what works is a 79.5 plus 89.5 an A?[/quote]
In the world where people learn about rounding up. 
Try it
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Even if you round up, that is an 85, which is a B. [/quote]

Any .5 is rounded up.
A 79.5 for MP1 rounds to an 80, which is a B, or 3 quality points. 
An 89.5 for MP2 rounds to a 90, which is an A, or 4 quality points. 
For a total of 7 quality points for the semester, divided by 2 is 3.5, which rounds up to 4, which is an A. [/quote]

That seems fair. Maybe these kids need to sign up for harder classes.[/quote]

No, this is ridiculous on a 4 point scale.  No precision, which is exactly what people are complaining about.  A low B and a low A average to a B.[/quote]

There's just a B and an A to be averaged. You have to round up or down. It's pretty standard practice to round up at .5[/quote]

[b]What law says they have to round to a whole number? FCPS doesn't. [/b]

I'm personally in favor of 4.0 for all, not because I think it's right, but because I'm an accelerationist and GPA is a fundamentally unworkable concept of a false metric that need to be eliminated. [/quote]

They have to round to a whole grade. The choices are A or B. MCPS doesn't have pluses or minuses.[/quote]

MCPS should have pluses and minuses. DCPS has them. Many school districts have them [/quote]

The problem isn’t even plus and minus; it’s disregarding the actual numbers and focusing on quality points instead. They shouldn’t be adding 3+4 and dividing by two. They should be adding the numbers. They They shouldn’t be adding 3+4 and dividing by two. They should be adding the numbers that got them the three and the four in the first place. [/quote]

So you would want there to be just two marking periods, each a semester in length.[/quote]

No, we want the county to add the quarterly 79.5 and 89.5 and divide by 2, resulting in a semester average of 84.5 and a semester grade of B.

Not: rounding the 79.5 to a B and the 89.5 to an A.  Then, converting those to 3 and 4.  Then, averaging those to 3.5.  Then, rounding up to a 4.  Then, assigning a semester grade of A.[/quote]

Once a marking period ends, they assign a letter grade. They could round down and assign a C and a B to those numbers instead, but then they would still have to combine those into a semester grade.[/quote]

Actually my daughter’s private school does one semester grade, not two marking periods. It makes making an A so much harder and I’ll bet the colleges know this. Our school has great college admissions. And kids need a 93 to get an A. 25% of our graduates go to T25 colleges. [/quote]

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