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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's funny how some of y'all go down these (il)logical rabbit holes.

You know darn well that the purpose of this SBG is to give kids more agency over their learning process and it is based on the latest research on learning.  (I'm basing this on the video, not my own personal knowledge of learning research.)

You cannot seriously think that FCPS wants or expects every student to have the SAME GRADES across the classroom, grade-level, school, and district.  Yes, they are trying to bring lower performing students into greater learning.  But, it's just silliness to suggest that they want all kids to get the same grades and therefore FCPS (according to the chicken littles on this thread) is trying to bring DOWN the high performing kids, and falsely bring UP the low performing kids.

There is a philosophy in education research that DE-emphasizing grades is good for the student (even if it is not good for the student's parent!).  And along with that is the idea of emphasizing learning and taking ownership of learning.

I don't know if what I've described (based on the video of SBG) is the wave of the future and what schools should all be doing.  Or if this philosophy will be scrapped in 10 yrs. 
 But, I know that what they are trying to do is based in research.  It's not a conspiracy to screw over the smart kids just to help the poor kids.  And when you go down that line of argument, you just make yourselves look like crazy people.  [/quote]

Go back to Gatehouse.[/quote]

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