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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Insane grade inflation in DCPS:
https://www.swwrookery.com/post/hugely-inflated-are-pandemic-era-grading-policies-doing-more-harm-than-good
A's are given for "any effort at all"

SWW has fantastic college admissions again this year--better than any private.  This is what the DC private school kids are up against with their 
3.4's for working their a$$es off.  🙁

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SWW only accepts 9th graders who have straight As. How is it a surprise that these kids will continue to be the kind of students who make As?[/quote]

This isn't true.  You can have As or Bs.

it's REALLy hard to get Bs at Deal (DCPS  middle school).  You have to basically not turn things in.  my kid is in algebra and this week received a sheet with every missing assignment that she can submit this week for full credit.  Also listed were every exam--she can retake them all this week and they're the same problems as the first time.  If you can't get an A in this system you are simply not doing ANYTHING. [/quote]

Not technically. They only invite the top X number of kids to even interview after lottery application. The year my kid was in 8th, he didn’t make the GPA cutoff with a 3.8.

Also not true about DCPS being hard not to get a B. There are plenty of Cs and Ds to be had. This narrative got pushed around a lot. At Deal you can’t have a single C to get honor roll (even if you have all As and one C) and can’t have a single B to get principal honor roll. They published the names of each for all grades each quarter. There weren’t even 20% of the class getting honor roll so can we stop this narrative already?

Yes, you get a million opportunities to make up work, but we also dealt with teachers not grading work after it was turned in, not having a teacher all quarter or a year. Having teachers go on leave and never coming back with no communication.

I don’t get the beef, you’re free to attend SWW or JR. Also, the private kids are getting into good colleges just fine. I know it was scary with so many NCS kids getting deferred or rejected ED but it’s clear most of them are landing somewhere based on IG.[/quote]

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