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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DD came home today and told me that her teacher told her that grade inflation is really rampant in MCPS and that he is told to grade really leniently and that it is really hard for someone to fail. He says that it is so bad that colleges will flag an application once they see it is from MCPS and make sure to look deeper into what classes they took to see how rigorous it is to make sure they really deserved that 4.0 gpa. Not sure how true this is, has anyone else heard about this?[/quote]

I have been told that we need to do more to set our students apart when we write a rec letter. That is because so many of our kids are graduating with extremely high (above 4.5) weighted GPAs. This makes he GPA meaningless. Colleges cannot tell between the solid all As student and the student who routinely has mix of As and Bs but in the right sequence to be all As at semester break.

I have also been told by a friend who works with freshman at UMD that advisors need to tell students that the 50% rule does not exist in college, they do not have retakes, and the due date is the deadline period.

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My former MCPS kid is at UMD right now, and based on my kid's experience, [b]it's not at all true that "the due date is the deadline period"[/b]. Also, there are a lot of former MCPS kids at UMD.[/quote]

Yeah that stuck out as untrue to my college experience, but then my fourth grade teacher told me we'd have to write in cursive in middle school; exaggerating to kids about what the next level is like it's an age old tradition.[/quote]

I am curious how my son will learn to sign his name.  I didn’t even think that far ahead.  I guess just scribbles will suffice. [/quote]

I haven't signed my name in cursive since before I turned 18, and I turned 18 sometime in the mid-Pliocene. So I think your son will be ok.[/quote]

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