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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I also find the stringent cutoff for grades grossly unfair. Some schools have grade inflation whereas I know at some CES schools and others they do not dole out a lot of As. There's also a lot of teacher bias built into English and Writing grades. I don't understand what they were thinking.

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Agree.  Grading is s**t in MCPS ES.  It is supposed to be standards based, but it's not.  One question wrong is a B s LOT of the time. (Whether or not the question made sense!)  Some report card categories have literally 1 assignment for the quarter and the teachers don't give the kids a heads up on what's a graded assignment vs. what is the typical busywork.  It's not a natural distinction.  The math kids in 5/6 were particularly screwed this year because of the sudden shift to Eureka.  The teachers didn't bother to tell the kids that you have to use the models to solve the problems or get a lower grade.  Then there are schools where everyone got an M in a certain topic because they did not give assessments last spring.  I could go on and on. [/quote]

Those kids will be fine.  We switched mid-year for compacted math when covid hit so we got both a change to Eureka math and DL.  This year those kids are fine.  Thankfully the dumb strategies are over starting in algebra.[/quote]

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