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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’d consider it a bonus that the A- didn’t go into SIS as a B (3) which has been the case in some of DCs classes when they were using a 4.0 scale and teachers wouldn’t “round up”.

Kids have enough to worry about. Extra points for an A+ is unnecessary pressure. [/quote]

OP here.

An A- in Fairfax County is 90-93%. And it is counted as 3.7 instead of a 4.0. So even if your kid gets legit As, they only get a 3.7 if they are at 92%.

It should be counted as a 4.0. I am not obsessing about the GPA- I don’t I think it’s unfair that a legitimate A (say 92%) gets punished, whileas all of the other grades get pluses.

Get rid of it completely. It’s unfair. Your kid has no idea that their GPA is not a 4.0 even though they are getting a solid 92% in all of their grades. That should be an A. The whole plus and minus thing is BS. Colleges don’t adjust because everywhere else there are A plusses. So we end up having kids with grade deflation.

Either give the option to get an A+ or get rid of the minuses and the pluses. Or use a % number instead.

And yes: you would be obsessed if your straight A student has a 3.7 GPA. It’s bs. [/quote]

A 92% was a B+ when I graduated from my FCPS high school. Should they just go back to that to make you feel better? Or if you just tell yourself an A- means your kid is no longer a straight A student?

I mean this is like saying calling a grade below D an "E" so that it's not "F" for failure matters. You're arguing with the school system about semantics! A 92% isn't a 4.0. That's how it's been for a long, long time.[/quote]

Correct!

When I was in FCPS HS:

94-100 = A
90-93 = B+
84-89= B
80-83 = C+
74-79 = C
70-73 = D+
64-69 = D
0-63 = F

There were no retakes, no late work allowed, and no 50% minimum required.

Honors classes got a 0.0 boost (AKA "no GPA boost") and AP classes got a 0.5 GPA boost.

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CLASS OF 2002, main difference was we were not soft like our kids now days.  We were told to lighting up. We won't given everything like our kids now days.  If we had this same grading scale now we would be having 50% graduation rates since  they don't do any work.I blame TikTok [/quote]

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