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Reply to "Way Forward with 50% Rule Remains Murky in MCPS as More Students Complain of Lack of College Readiness"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You cannot talk about "overall degradation of student initiative" without speaking to the grade inflation that is the calculation of semester grades (the old A + B = A or B + C = B nonsense). Absurd. Teens are smart enough to game the system. Make the system make sense.[/quote] I definitely agree with this! In the olden days, the tiebreak was the semester exam. If you had an A + B= you needed an A on the exam to earn the A for the semester. That made sense. If you had the same grade for both quarters, it was a little easier and you had more leeway on the exam, but it still mattered. You could go A + A, but if you got a D on your exam, you earned a B for the quarter. Both my kids learned early that if they earned an A for the first quarter of the semester, they could slack off during the second semester. I can't even imagine how frustrating that must be for teachers![/quote]
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