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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They're mad because they were told the policy would take effect for certain graduation years, and then MCPS decided to change that and apply it to all high school and middle school students effective this school year.
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Yes, under the initial proposal to change the policy, the new policy was only going to apply to the Class of 2029 and subsequent classes.[/quote]

Taylor said at a board meeting that their grading systems can't be configured for two different grading policies concurrently for students taking the same class. For example, many HS math classes have students of different grades. So, you couldn't have 10th graders in the class having one grading policy and 11th graders in the same class having the other.[/quote]

I don’t have a problem with the new grading policy,  if that excuse is BS. Of course they can. They don’t want to, but they can. You can certainly apply 2 simple algorithms to a class - just need to be clear which algorithm is used with which students. [/quote]

Don’t you think it would be confusing for teachers to have kids in their classes being graded differently? Even if the teacher doesn’t have to do anything differently, it still seems weird to have different grade patterns in the classroom. [/quote]
Why would it be confusing? Nothing about the grades teachers enter into the grade book would be different. The only difference would be how we arrive at a semester grade, using the two quarterly grades. If an algorithm calculated the semester grades, teachers wouldn’t even be entering them.

I completely understand if MCPS is choosing not to spend money upgrading their software to accommodate two different grading algorithms. That’s not a wise use of money. However, let’s not act like it’s impossible or confusing or weird.[/quote]

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