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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is the policy now county-wide in FFX?

Or, are only certain high schools doing this?  Is there a list??

(anyone know specifically if McLean HS is implementing equity/SBG trading? [/quote]

This is my fondest hope. That this madness will extend to the schools with powerful PTAs who will lobby against it for the rest of us. [/quote]

i'm confused why you think a public PTA is "powerful" or will have the money to take this on????[/quote]

I have faith in the Langley parents. :-) 
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You're mistaken. At Madison, it was presented to the parents after the school hired outside people to explore how to implement it. I believe they even have information they presented to the admin that was released explaining how to respond when parents push back. Parents were only told about it after it was going to happen. Last year's seniors spoke at a PTA meeting and explained it is horrible. Parents complain. Teachers complain. The admin is in la la land and thinks it is great because the bottom is brought up. PERIOD. There was never a period where they solicited input from parents or students and then considered what to do. Instead, it was 100% a done deal and presented only after it was being implemented. There is no push back. There is no powerful PTA who can override this. [/quote]

So weird how they made a decision based on educational research and child psychology instead of parents and kids' opinions.

Also weird:  implementing the alleged "equity" grading system in a school that doesn't have  a large group of lower performing students.

Maybe this policy (ill-advised or not) is intended to help all students learn more, not equalize them.  And really...think about this argument that SBG is just a veiled attempt to create "equity"...that doesn't even make sense at the HS level:  [b]the kids who need a GPA boost aren't in the same classes as the kids who are supposedly being down-graded by SBG.  How would the admin be engineering "equity" when students are pre-sorting themselves by the classes they take.  Colleges look at the difficulty of classes you take, not just your gpa.  [/b]

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A lot of students don't pre-sort themselves correctly. You'd be surprised at the number of students with a D in a lower-level adjacent class who think that the AP-level follow on is their destiny. Teachers used to be able to at least try to talk them out of an impossible class but this year have been instructed not to tell students during course advising that they think a class may be too difficult.[/quote]

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