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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree MCPS is a whacko but it’s not quite as bad as you are saying.  You get an official grade per semester not year, so the lowest you could get for an A is 79.5 one quarter then 89.5 the second quarter - a B and an A averaging to an A.[/quote]

How does that average to an A? At the very least an A should be 90%. Those two numbers do not average 90%. It’s mid-B (84.5%) Only in crazy DMV land is 84.5% an A![/quote]

I'm so jealous. We're in CT (Fairfield County) and an A is a 93. An A-minus is 90-92.

Also, throughout my kid's 2.5 years of high school, no teacher has ever offered retakes. You get what you get.[/quote]

Same for DS (NY). Grading scale was the same as college (93 A) Syllabus, rubric, weighting for every class. APs only .50 bump. I always laugh when the private vs public discussions accuse public’s of grade inflation. Grade inflation happens at both private and public, but not the majority. In NY, kids take regents exams and AP exams in the same 2 weeks. If a kid desires an advanced honors regents diploma it would require 8 exams including world language vs advanced regents with designation. 4.0 unweighted was impossible for many smart kids in his school. Now a rising junior at one of his top college choices after being deferred. But he worked hard to flip that deferral to acceptance in a clever way, and it had nothing to do with his HS transcript (which was solid, not perfect.)[/quote]

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