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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MCPS: *makes adjustments, based on data and experience, to help students get through an unprecedented and difficult time*

You: "Bad! Those adjustments are insufficiently punitive!"[/quote]

Oh look there is someone with a soul here. Thank God.

Look, people. There are two issues. One is the education itself. What kids are learning.  Then there are the rewards and punishments. The A's and F's.

No need to change the curriculum, teach to the highest level, give the most rigorous feedback. Fine. Great!

But give grade amnesty for all who ask. None of it goes on a transcript. None of it goes to GPA. If you don't learn, then your punishment is that you haven't learned. If you learn, your rewards is that you have. Find a way to prove it without the transcript.

It is completely messed up and cruel and stupid to punish a generation of students for not "performing" during the pandemic. Why on earth would we benefit, as a community, from making it harder for students who have already missed crucial material to succeed in the future?

Stop congratulating yourselves on your kids' A's. It's an arbitrary, deeply-flawed system. Just because you've taught your kids to jump through hoops doesn't mean the whole thing isn't a circus.

P.S. My kids are doing fine. They'll do fine either way. Because I, like you-reading-this, have the educational, emotional, financial, and other resources to support them adequately. Stop worrying about your cared-for kids and think about how we can serve those who are not adequately cared-for.

Merry Christmas. 
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