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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"It would take away the pressure of a 89.4 being a B and an 89.5 being an A."

Back during the stone age, my HS graded from 0 to 100.  I felt it was much more pressure.  When graded from 0 to 100 in every class and then the four quarters are averaged, every single assignment counts and you never get a break.

The last week of the quarter and you have to chose is it better to study for the test or polish up your project.  Not doing both will, without question, bring your GPA down from the 100% or the 91.3% you currently have.

With the MCPS system, imperfect it may be, but at least if you have worked hard all quarter and have a 100% average that is going to be converted to a 4.0, you can neither study nor polish because you will get an 89.5 and still get the 4.0 even if you take a break or have a personal problem.

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I completely disagree.  MCPS kids have it so easy.  They are one of the only districts I know that bumps honors courses up an entire whole point.  They also average letter grades with the higher grade of 2 always winning out.  No where in this world should a 79.5 and an 89.5 equal an A for a student.  And then if it is an honors course, they get a 5.0?   A child in another district gets 95 in all of their courses but only a .5 bump on honors and gets a lower GPA.   It just isn't right.

100 point system shows who is the best, not who had the easiest system or played the system to it's advantage.  It also eliminates strange ways colleges report their GPA grades which are also very inflated to look more appealing.  If kids want to be more stressed, that is their issue but kids shouldn't be broken down into a 4.0 system.  Kids that get 91's are not that much smarter than kids getting 89's.

And by the way, when I was growing up in NJ, only a 92 and higher was an A[/quote]

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