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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a parent of a 8th grader, I am a bit confused about the move on grading scale system of FCPS in next school year: There will be only 100 point scale, no 4 scale will be used (?). So, how the kids GPA will be for college applications? Thanks.[/quote]

That is for classroom teachers to calculate quarter grades. It has nothing to do with GPA. GPA calculations will remain the same. If your kid gets an A for the final grade, that will still be a 4.0.[/quote]

So 80-89 will now be flat B and no B- or B+ and so just 3.0 and not 3.5 when doing GPA?  As are anything 90 and above?  To determine if a kids is too 10% of class, so if 100 kids with 4.0, they go back to see if one was 100%, others are 98% or 95% or 90% and do the cutoff by percents?[/quote]

From where are you getting that idea? FCPS will still have A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, etc.[/quote]

+1 they are basically banning the 4,3,2,1 standards based grades by teachers for the quarter that some schools have tried recently. All the 10 point scale means is that you won’t need to worry about standards based grading. It’s the normal scale most schools use now.[/quote]

No, not true. [b]I just attended an SBG session[/b] at our middle school last night. Our middle school is requiring all teachers to use SBG and instead of using the 4 point scale they have to translate it to the 100 point scale. So you can only get an A with a 100%. Any amount lower is a "3" and a B - I think it's 86%. A "2" equates to a 72%.

It's crazy town. And of course my kid is taking his first two high school credit classes this year under this system. They are still using rolling gradebook and offering retakes, but teachers can also replace grades as they feel appropriate if they think the student now understands each standard fully. Gives the teacher so much power. I really dislike it.

This was all straight from our principal's mouth. [/quote]

Yes, this is how it is at Madison[/quote]

Do you guys understand English? Next year it won’t be like that. Your schools are obviously still doing SBG this year. Next year they will be required to do the normal 100 point scale.[/quote]

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