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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kids who actually need the retakes almost never take them. They should put a limit on who can retake a test (eg, c or lower).[/quote]

Nah. If a kid wants to make sure he gets an A in the class instead of a B, nothing wrong with that at all.[/quote]

Too bad this new grading policy wont be enforced for all Fairfax high schools. Apparently equity only matters if you have a principal who cares about their students more than their own careers. Why is the school board and administration allowing this to happen? [/quote]

Where does it say this policy will not take place at all high schools? It looks like this is a new policy to standardize all the high schools since they currently all have different policies.

I do wonder how this will affect the schools using the SBG method though. [/quote]

This won’t apply to schools with SBG. There are no retakes. New grades can replace old ones, but not on the same material. Supposedly on the same “skills.”  It is a hot mess and everyone knows it, otherwise the new grading policy would be SBG rather than something new. It is unfortunate that kids at Madison and Herndon have a totally separate grading policy. [/quote]

Wrong. It applies to all schools, inc, JMHS and Herndon.[/quote]

This is just not true. The original email said they would be pausing SBG roll out to new schools, not stopping them at JMHS and Herndon. The principal may claim that SBG meets the criteria, when it does not. Because the “retakes” are not that, they actually count and if you score lower (which happens all the time) then you are out of luck. Stuck with original low grade and now another low grade. For every other school, the retake will only count if it is higher than the existing grade. I hope Madison parents wake up. Because the GPAs of every other kid are going to be going up without Madison and Herndon. 
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You are wrong. The new grading policy applies to all fcps HSs.

- teacher [/quote]

What school are you from? I’m not sure how a teacher from a school not at Madison is going to know what is going on at the school. The last email said the leadership team would be meeting to see how to address SBG in the context of the new guidance. I simply do not trust the administration not to play games with claiming that SBG meets these guidelines. I very much hope you are right though and that this means SBG is somehow disappearing. [/quote]

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