Reply to More skills based grading at madison hs

Forum Index » Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)

Reply to "More skills based grading at madison hs"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ While at the same time complaining about grade inflation making their kid seem less competitive. So gross. They don't care about learning...only grade grubbing.[/quote]
Yeah and previously, kids and families that didn't do any schoolwork or homework  were upset they were getting failing grades and poor grades. They didn't care about learning... only whether they received a grade less than others who worked harder. Disgusting. [/quote]

I mean, a kid who gets 100 on tests without doing a lick of work should have an A for content mastery, right? Why penalize someone for skipping something they don’t need to do? Grades should measure knowledge. If we want to add “study skills” or “work habits” and assign grades on the transcript for those then fine, but an A next to “advanced chemistry” should mean they mastered 90%+ of the material, regardless of how much work it took to get there.[/quote]

Are you the speaker? This is exactly what he said and he's so wrong. It means the class is too easy and the kid should be in a different class. It also doesn't mean that work habits don't matter. Tell that to any employer or even a business owner about their own success. It all matters. The kid should be in a harder class or they should just do the work with ease because its easy for them. Life isnt just a series of large scale tests. Its daily practice. Like any class the teaching is to the mean, not the outliers. This is a straw man argument. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics