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[quote=Anonymous][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.

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

Skills based grading by design reduces the number of As, Ds, and Fs to reduce the gap. My kid is fine with homework not counting. What seems unfair is the elimination of the A- and B+ grades, so to get an A you generally need to make zero mistakes on a test. So kids get fewer As, which is the point of the grading policy. But most high schools aren’t doing this, so when my average kid applies to public schools that admit students largely by GPA and don’t have time to investigate the grading policies of each individual school, they will be at a disadvantage.  Kids are miserable enough. I just don’t see why we need to make things more difficult for them. 
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This is precisely the problem. [/quote]

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