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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would love to know the graduation rates in fcps per high school over the last 30 years. [/quote]

Why?  They’ve made it easier to graduate in recent years while reducing what’s needed to graduate. [/quote]

False.

FCPS follows state of VA graduation requirements.

In 1983: students were required to complete 18 "Carnegie credits",

In 1990 they were required to complete 21 Carnegie credits including core requirements of 4 English, 3 Social Studies, 2 Math, 2 Science,

In 2023, they are required to complete 22 Carnegie credits, including core requirements of 4 English,  3 Social Sciences, 3 Math, 3 Lab Science,

So there has been an increased requirement of an additional math course and an additional lab science course to get a HS diploma.[/quote]

That part might be true, but grades are so unbelievably inflated now that it is far easier to get those credits than it was 20-40 years ago.

I graduated from an FCPS high school in the mid-1990s. Back then:

* we received zeros for unsubmitted assignments (not the 50% of today)
* late work was never accepted (as opposed to the "turn it is whenever you feel like it" approach today)
* there were no retakes of anything ever (unlike the "retake everything" policy today)
* the grading scale was much more rigorous (94-100= A; 90-93= B+, 84-89= B; 80-83= C+, and so on). [/quote]

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