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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is Madison one of the schools keeping the 4 point scale for this year?[/quote]

Yes. At least, this is what we were told at freshman orientation. It was discussed very briefly. The principal said she wasn’t going to go into the nuts and bolts of the grading system, but the teachers are ready, or at least most of them, and other schools are trying to copy Madison and that’s going to be a mess but Madison will be ok because they know what they are doing. There was nothing about training sessions for parents which was discussed in the spring.  They are not going to provide any sort of forum for parents to ask questions because the answers would not withstand scrutiny. But then, it appears most parents at Madison don’t care anyway, because hardly any of them filled out the survey on the grading system sent out at the end of the year.

I can’t believe we are adopting a policy reserved for students in danger of not graduating for all students. Not the 4.0 scale, btw, I’m talking about the dropping/replacing quarter grades. Just why? [/quote]

Few parents care enough to learn the nitty gritty about real academics. They see a decent GreatSchools score, water cooler chat claims Madison is "well-regarded," and the sports are winning championships, so they throw caution to the wind.[/quote]

They will care when it comes time to apply for college and have lower GPAs than anticipated.  
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