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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You cannot talk about "overall degradation of student initiative" without speaking to the grade inflation that is the calculation of semester grades (the old A + B = A or B + C = B nonsense). Absurd. Teens are smart enough to game the system. Make the system make sense.[/quote]

Would A + B = B make sense, though? They either round up or down.[/quote]

They shouldn't combine quarter grades into whole semester grades at all. There's no point except loss of information. 
 If quarter grade are so important, then semester grades should be removed.

If it's important to make everyone have the same GPA because GPA is a trash concept, then get rid of overall grades entirely.

Or just keep the current system, where students who don't want to work harder don't have to work harder, and let it pressure colleges to find meaningful ways to evaluate admissions instead of GPA. [/quote]

Or we could have plus/minus grading which would allow for more nuanced averaging between marking periods.

For example, A + B+ = A but A + B-= B+

The fact that our grades are so flat with no room for degrees is a problem.[/quote]

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