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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From what I can glean, the issue with this for many parents and kids isn't REALLY that they are peeved about equity-it is that the extra assignments that used to inflate their grades are now gone. Hi

So are we against "equity" or FOR grade inflation?[/quote]

Both. You can still drill down and see that kids are not meeting the state benchmarks. If I was from a URM family I would be much more interested in the actual grades than the differential. Why can’t Madison meet the state averages when other schools nearby meet them? Are they entering their data wrong or are they really not able to teach to the state minimum? That is the issue they should be addressing, not if they have too many kids who really should be at TJ but prefer Madison making their differential too high.

Secondly I don’t know anything about extra credit. Some teachers are no longer following any standards and it’s a complete free for all because of this skills based grading and just lack of follow through and standards. Some have retakes for all assignments. Some just major assessments. Some none at all. This is unfair and not following their own standards. There are assignments given but it’s not like there is some category that you know whether it is for practice or for a grade unless you check on SIS and no one can do this all the time so it’s not intuitive to know which assignments count and which don’t. A good number of assignments don’t even make it onto the Schoology calendar and just pop up.  There is also no individual skill listed for any of these assignments so you have no idea this is your last chance to practice skill 4 of that class. Maybe there has been no practice on this skill for months and no graded assignments so the child doesn’t end up doing well on the assessment. Then the grades are whole letter grades which is just lazy grading. [/quote]

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