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Not sure I believe you. Your aggressive defense of MCPS belies some sort of allegiance to the system. Maybe your spouse works for the system?

Either way, your premise is utter garbage. If grades didn't indicate mastery and effort, the SCHOOLS would not highlight kids who get good grades via Honor Roll ceremonies or Straight A's recognition. Your theory that grades don't indicate mastery and effort are completely misaligned with the actions schools routinely make in highlighting and promoting kids who get GOOD GRADES.

If they didn't matter and didn't indicate competency and mastery, why recognize them?

Your argument is full of holes. So why are you invested in arguing and making it? Be transparent.[/quote]

Your hyper-defensiveness tells the entire tale really.  The all too easy 'blame someone else' attitude goes over well at the local park and makes it easy to have friendships over lattes.  I'm not your friend.  Grades are grades, and honor roll is an indication of meeting certain criteria of the school, not mastery of a subject (if you mastered Calculus in high school, why would you take it in college? I thought you mastered it!).  If your kid had actual mastery of the subject and an established ability to fulfil tasks, think independently and critically and have a higher level of understanding then they likely wouldn't fail the subject freshman year of college.  There's some other reason for the failure we're probably not hearing about and it's really easy to suggest it's just dang harder than MCPS taught.  Maybe the child, now adult, was partying?  Maybe they weren't instilled with a sense of attending class and meeting deadlines and got behind?  Maybe they have unmet psychological or physical problems and made college difficult whereas high school was more 'on rails?'  [/quote]

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