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[quote=Anonymous]Oddly at our school we've been told that one P on an assignment even if there were mostly ES grades will also result in a P on the report card. However, there can be multiple Is on an assignment and then the final grade can be P. I guess this is 2.0 math.

The reality is what is happening is that this grading system is a construct from the MCPS curriculum department, the biggest bunch of idiots on the planet. They are so far behind in even finishing this awful curriculum that they provide no support to teachers. Honestly, it probably wouldn't help but still they leave the teachers hanging. The teachers are falling back on the only approach they known....bell curving. ES is rare so it only goes to the 1-2 kids at the top of the class. The bar moves so that it can only be a few. This is why an ES kid can go to a P quickly the next year or a P only kid can jump to an ES as it depends on who is in what home room. The Is are sprinkled in to counter the everyone is getting a P problem but they are given to kids who actually are proficient in the subject.

Special needs kids get Ps where the same product from a non-special needs kid would be an I. The schools do not want to give services or create any documentation that would result on a deeper drain to their already stretched resources. The PP who noted that her teacher said she gave her son an I because she knew he could do better is a great example of this. I guarantee you that she is giving the kid on a 504 a P for doing lower quality work so the 504 doesn't become an IEP.

MCPS is fast becoming one of the biggest examples of public education gone bad.

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