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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in a middle class neighborhood of single family homes. Last year, our neighborhood school bus-stop had five students (all boys) in the 3rd grade.  They had grown up together, the moms were friends and occasionally had coffee together.  Three of the students had got into the magnet HGC program, one was moving to another neighborhood and one was continuing on the home school. The home school student was Hispanic.  The mom was feeling very sad that her son had not got into HGC program. [b] She said that her son was getting all "P"s, just like every other student.  [/b]

I told her that actually the "P" means nothing. It is a range of scores from 50-100% and that it is meaningless. She asked why would MCPS do that?  She said that she would prefer that her son got home the correct measure of where he stood in all subjects. Not only a grade card that had A, B, C and D, but a grade card that gave his results in percentage.

Why would MCPS not consider that? The gap in knowledge is minimal in Elementary Schools.  If MCPS was honest with the parents where exactly the students were behind in the elementary levels then it would be easy to fill those gaps.   [/quote]

MCPS has done away with this grading methodology. They are now back to doing A, B, C, D but these are still not percentage based.  I'm okay with them going back to this method and I feel like between this and the communications I have with my kid's teacher, that I have a great grasp my child's performance. At the ES level,  I don't need to know percentages. [/quote]

Its still overly subjective.  [b]We get very little work back and no regularly information from the teacher so all we get are subjective a, b's [/b]so we have no idea what it all means.[/quote]

This has been our experience also so far this year.

Last year, we did not get single writing assignment returned graded.  This year, we do get math work back, but still no writing feedback.  Zero.

The kids do dozens of 'writing assignments', but they are either 'peer graded' or not graded at all.  How does that benefit the kids?  [/quote]

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