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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m mostly concerned it doesn’t encourage learning. [/quote]

Quite the opposite!  It doesn't DIScourage learning.  It encourages kids to keep doing better on the next test b/c if they do, they will get a bump up on the most recent previous test.  [/quote]

Look, we know that you are the poster we suspect of being admin or someone close to admin. Please just start your own pro-SBG at Madison thread and see if you get any posts/views besides your own.
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I am just a parent at Madison, and I tend to agree with PP. SBG has been fine. My kid is learning the material, he has to revisit it every unit, and his grades have not changed.

I AM the poster who asked earlier about grade inflation, and in the end, that is all I am seeing here...people mad that homework doesn't prop up a grade on a bad test anymore. The question remains: is your kid learning the material? If so, and most likely, why are you upset?

This nonsense that Madison students will have lower grades is just that-nonsense

I am not really seeing any legit arguments.[/quote]

I am confused as to why you think it is nonsense that the kids have lower grades. Perhaps it has not happened to your kid, but others have been seeing this and the actual studies and stated goals of skills based grading show this is what happens. This is how you reduce inequality, you shrink the gap between the top and bottom performing students. I would love to see Madison publish the grades overall between this year and last year or pre-Covid. If they are roughly the same, I will stop questioning the policy. But that hasn’t happened. [/quote]

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