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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids just got their report card--mostly A's with no studying in 4th  and 5th grade.  Cerebrally, they are your average Potomac/ Bethesda kids, nothing more.  Do schools just give everyone A's for showing up?  It looks like grade inflation is rampant at MCPS, perhaps as a  way to appease parents.  Does anyone else agree?

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What grades do you think they should have received?  I don't feel like there is grade inflation at our schools.  I've had two graduate from MCPS and end up at competitive colleges where they have done very well.  My kids earned great grades in MCPS as well.  [/quote]

OP here.

I think my kids should of received mostly B's and a few C's--barely doing any homework and having average writing ability. To me that does not qualify for almost strait A's.[/quote]

My kid used to get straight As too. I switched him to Catholic school and they went away. Now he gets an equal number of As, Bs and Cs. I shouldn't have to pay money to get an accurate measure of my kid's mastery of the subject.[/quote]

But Catholic schools are not challenging and are well known to be far less vigorous, especially in math and science, than MCPS.  So you are basically PAYING a religious school that is academically inferior to MCPS to give your child subpar grades and you are happy with this?  You do realize your kid eventually has to apply out to high school or college and this no name Catholic transcript with average grades is not going to help your kid at all, right?

- Signed a parent who has had kids enrolled in both MCPS and Independent schools[/quote]

Hmmm. Not challenging? My kid used to get 5-10 minutes of HW in public school. No spelling, grammar or reading except for an optional reading log. So basically nothing. Now he is expected to write and rewrite drafts of essays at home in addition to reading chapters in the assigned novel they are reading. He also prepares for class discussions for homework. This is in addition to vocab and grammar homework. He actually has math and occasional science lab write-ups to do at home. Yep, I'd say he is finally challenged. I actually am a public school teacher so I see the difference every day. My kid will be much better prepared for college than he ever would be coming from a district where it takes so little to earn top grades. [/quote]

Mcps doesn’t have homework in elementary school.   But there is an insane amount starting in sixth grade. So you could have saved yourself some money. [/quote]

Um, yes they do. At least, my second grader does. About 10 minutes of math and 20 minutes of reading every night. I don't know if that's a lot or a little but it isn't zero.[/quote]

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