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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

I did too and hated that there was no A minus. It was a dumb system. 92-100 should be some form of an A. Glad that change went through. Also I believe you could drop a bad grade per semester. You could also sometimes turn work in late but like one day late.[/quote]

That may have been the policy at your school, but mine never allowed any grades to be dropped, nor was late work accepted by any of my teachers throughout the entirety of high school. Even when I was hospitalized, my calculus teacher refused to accept late homework because she said my parents could have dropped it off in the office.[/quote]

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