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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’d consider it a bonus that the A- didn’t go into SIS as a B (3) which has been the case in some of DCs classes when they were using a 4.0 scale and teachers wouldn’t “round up”.

Kids have enough to worry about. Extra points for an A+ is unnecessary pressure. [/quote]

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[b]An A- in Fairfax County is 90-93%. And it is counted as 3.7 instead of a 4.0. So even if your kid gets legit As, they only get a 3.7 if they are at 92%. [/b]

It should be counted as a 4.0. I am not obsessing about the GPA- I don’t I think it’s unfair that a legitimate A (say 92%) gets punished, whileas all of the other grades get pluses.

Get rid of it completely. It’s unfair. Your kid has no idea that their GPA is not a 4.0 even though they are getting a solid 92% in all of their grades. That should be an A. The whole plus and minus thing is BS. Colleges don’t adjust because everywhere else there are A plusses. So we end up having kids with grade deflation.

Either give the option to get an A+ or get rid of the minuses and the pluses. Or use a % number instead.

And yes: you would be obsessed if your straight A student has a 3.7 GPA. It’s bs. [/quote]

Yes, I know that.  And at DCs school, that only mattered for final quarter/semester/year grades.  Individual assignments were graded on a 4.0 scale and you could not get an A-, B+, B-, etc.  So as an example, if you took a 100 question test, got 92 of them (so 92%) correct, some teachers would record that in SIS as a 3.0 which is the equivalent of a B.  But arguing that is not the point of this thread.  There is nothing wrong, IMO, with an A- and no corresponding A+.  I've had two kids go through the college admissions process (one of them right now, so my information is as recent as it gets) and I promise you that college AOs are familiar with the grading systems of the areas they oversee.  Your child will be compared first to other students from FCPS and will not suffer because FCPS has no A+ but some other school system does.[/quote]

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