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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We're outside NOVA (downstate) and our high schooler's grades are always up to date. The teachers all have 140+ students per day coming through their classes, so it's not that they have only a few students. Tests given on paper are posted next day, sometimes same day.

But I did notice in FCPS HS with our older child that the grading was quite often way behind. Our kid would warn us sometimes. IT did seem like FCPS was always behind on grading. Even in grade school.[/quote]

I think some of this is specific to the NOVA region. There's a real push for students to have good grades to get into "top colleges." I taught in two other areas, and the pressure was nowhere near the same.

I left FCPS three years ago, but in my time there, I saw a ton of policy changes that often led to grade inflation and a number of students not being prepared for courses they were opting into. As a teacher, this meant that I was often spending more time grading work from months prior, re-grading assignments from students who were desperate to bring their 90% up to 95%, and reframing lessons for students who frankly shouldn't have been in my class. It made keeping an up-to-date grade book nearly impossible.

This got worse every year I was there. Some of the policies around grading became and continue to be incredibly unreasonable and unmanageable as students face increasing pressure to get into incredibly competitive colleges.

That being said--no grades for half the year is not something I've ever heard of being acceptable. [/quote]

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