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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Could anyone expain the 50% rule?"

I'll do you one better, I'll show you the actual language that is in the MCPS Grading and Reporting document:

"Assigning a grade lower than 50 percent to a task/assessment [is prohibited].  However, if a student does no work on the task/assessment, the teacher will assign a zero. If a teacher determines the student did not attempt to meet the basic requirements of the task/assessment or the student engaged in academic dishonesty, the teacher may assign a zero"

Source: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/policy/pdf/ikara.pdf

"If my child took a math test with 10 problems to solve and finished all but only got 5 correct answers, shoul$ he receive 50% for this rest?"

He should, and would.

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My issue with the 50% rule is the zeros for work that is less than 50% attempted.

I’m going to use an actual example for this past school year without identifying the student.

Student never completed a homework assignment. It was either not attempted at all or about 20-30% attempted. The parent was aware of this all year and took the position that homework was the student’s problem. MP 1-3 final grades were Bs and Cs. MP 4, Student blew the final project. Then the parent wanted to protest all the zeroes for quarter 4 homework. Parent wanted them all bumped up to 50% trying to eke out a C from a D.  Under the old system, I could have entered the actual grades of 20, 25, 30 percent and we wouldn’t have even wasted time discussing this on the last day of school. In the end, my admin supported the D because I could document ten months of homework-related emails to the parent. [/quote]

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