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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"some parents just want grade inflation and will freak out"

To me this is the equivalent of name calling. How is it any different than calling someone stupid? It's debasing what this entire thread is about.

I don't control what others say and those posts weren't directed towards me. Others called them out already. I thought the language was unnecessary, but felt they were responding to some sort of previous debasing language such as the above.

There were only two posts in close to 400 posts here that you found anything remotely rude and we already had that discussion. There wasn't much there. There are a lot of posts from you mainly reducing arguments to nefarious accusations while making few positive arguments of your own.

We are all ears. How has your junior or senior boy been compelled to do more, learned better study skills and mastered material better with the new system?
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Huh? There were many earlier name calling/disrespectful posts.

PP was discussing the behavior, which seems pretty accurate IMO. A recent post described "buffering" as grade inflation (something like taking a B+ to an A). 
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You call it grade inflation. Others like me amd even the SBG just call it grading multiple assignments as part of a grade. Or grading to a more accurate number with pluses and minuses. Grade inflation would mean that the grade is not linked to actual work and just made up which is pretty much what changing a past grade is. To me SBG is a weird form of grade inflation without any new work completed. [/quote]

Here was the quote: 
"Kids who deserve As do not always get those deserved As at JMHS. Kids who deserve As at other FCPS locations, get As. And, kids at most FCPS locations all [b]get to add buffers to grades, boosting up scores from B+ to an A[/b], but not at JMHS." 
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NP: and the troll took those quotes and addresses only the second one saying something - so you’re upset you student’s grade is only reflective of knowledge? Clearly ignoring that JMHS students get lower grades. [/quote]

More name calling.

The kids who “deserve” to get As, are the ones who actually get the As, not the ones who rely on buffers. 
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