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]What is wild is that people have had to be graded for all of their assignments since the beginning of public school and now somehow that's a problem when of course it isn't.  The IB schools arent getting an overhaul just because there are other grades beyond unit summatives. Teachers just don't want to grade.

Requests for work at the end of the year will happen regardless by people who are on a cusp. It has nothing to do with the work before. Whatever program you have for grading, someone is going to want to try for a higher grade at the end of the year whether through an assignment or retake. A professor was even saying that happened in college without this silly grading system. These requests have also gone on since the beginning of school.

Madison actually replaces grades from the past. You think that is somehow more accurate than an extra credit assignment to bump up a grade by a half a percentage point? SGB is an incredibly inaccurate grading system. The only thing it does is ensure sometime throughout the year various standards are assessed. It is not a system that accurately measures standards. It's just a system that ensures standards are measured.

Then there is the fact that now all of the grades are whole letter grades. Obviously not accurate in the slightest. The grades used to be more accurate with pluses and minuses. Many of the grades are 0.25, 0.t, 0.75 and 1. How is this accurate if only grades to the 25 percentile and replaceable? There is nothing accurate about this system.

Madison is also one of the only schools that doesn't have finals. Some teachers there stop teaching a whole month or two early because there is no one watching them and no final to teach to. They also don't require a science fair project like I guess a lot of other schools do. It's not "standards based". Nothing that would actually give kids some ownership of what they are learning. Just more teaching to the test.

Finally what happened to educating the entire child and portrait of a graduate? Is the slogan now for FCPS going to be Portrait of a Standards Achieved Graduate?  Is this the direction FCPS wants to go as a standards based teach to the test school system rather than an innovative one and one that is a whole child experience? Private schools love to tout that they aren't just about grades and are educating the whole child for the 21st century.  Why would FCPS want to minimize their educational goals to SOLs?[/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