Reply to MS grades on HS transcript

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "MS grades on HS transcript"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are there high school level/advanced courses other than math and foreign language available in middle school? Upper elementary kids don't receive grades in 3-5th under the new 2.0 system. [b]Middle school will be the first time they have ever seen a  grade other than P for whatever they turned in. The range of P is so broad in ES that C level work is a P and A level is a P. [/b]

I worry less about math because there is an inherent motivation to get the right answer but the lack of grading in upper elementary really affects the quality of writing and other subjects. The kids just don't have any knowledge whether they are above or below expectations and no motivation anyway if they did. [/quote]

This is why I think HS classes taken in MS should be weighted if they're going to count for the HS GPA.  The P/I/N system reinforces terrible study habits.  Kids learn that the same mark is given for any range of effort from A-C, so even the smart kids start to do just what's necessary and don't put in the rigor to get what would have been marked as an A (the ES is so rarely and arbitrarily awarded as to be meaningless...even my perfectionist kid doesn't bother with it because there is no understandable way to earn it).  I've found that the teachers don't even correct tests and HW with much precision because most everything can be lumped into a "P."

Now in middle school, the A-E system is introduced, and suddenly it can matter a great deal if you got something wrong on a 10-point quiz.  Wouldn't be that big a deal except for those kids taking HS level courses in 6th grade (and there are fair number of them).  Let's just say it was a very very rude awakening for our 6th grader.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics