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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah, I know. My kid just got a B on a test - the content wasn’t even being tested. [b]The B grade was because of one question marked wrong even though DC’s answer is right. [/b]The teacher has told the students if they question the grade, she will regrade the whole thing and they may end up with lower grade.

We have 2 teachers strictly following SBG and those are the 2 classes where the students are expected to know less (than before SBG - I base this on other DC going through same classes before SBG) and grading is usually 1 thing marked wrong, vague rubric, grade = B. Kids know it’s a joke.

The other teacher we have that loves SBG says a “B or a C is where you should be.”[/quote]

I’d take that B over how DCs math teacher grades. Even if your answer is correct, if you do anything she seems “incorrect” (not writing down a step, a small error in the accompanying graph, etc.) you get a zero for the entire question. The same grade as a kid who left it blank because they didn’t know the math. Grading is basically 100% mastery or nothing.

English is bad, too. No Bs or Ds as options on most rubrics. You get an A, C or F.  Anything less than mastery level puts you at a C. In this case, my older kid had the same teacher pre-SBG so I can absolutely see the grade depression and lack of learning system this is causing. [/quote]

Would you be willing to post the initials of the teacher you are referring to?  This sounds a lot like my kid's reports about how you either get an A or an F on a 3-question math test.... even if you are off by two hundreths, because you followed the process used in the practice questions which required you to round at an interim step -- but the assessment doesn't follow those rules --- so ZERO for you on that questions and now you're getting an F on the assessment.  Fun times.[/quote]

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