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[quote=Anonymous]"I completely disagree. MCPS kids have it so easy. They are one of the only districts I know that bumps honors courses up an entire whole point. They also average letter grades with the higher grade of 2 always winning out. No where in this world should a 79.5 and an 89.5 equal an A for a student. And then if it is an honors course, they get a 5.0? A child in another district gets 95 in all of their courses but only a .5 bump on honors and gets a lower GPA. It just isn't right.

100 point system shows who is the best, not who had the easiest system or played the system to it's advantage. It also eliminates strange ways colleges report their GPA grades which are also very inflated to look more appealing. If kids want to be more stressed, that is their issue but kids shouldn't be broken down into a 4.0 system. Kids that get 91's are not that much smarter than kids getting 89's.

And by the way, when I was growing up in NJ, only a 92 and higher was an A."

15:50 here - as I noted above, I'm not against some changes to MCPS grading policy.  I am sure MCPS grading policy is hurting students but you can't believe colleges don't change what they are doing when MCPS changes their policy, do you?

"Kids that get 91's are not that much smarter than kids getting 89's."  The 4, 3, 2, 1 grade system does NOT result in students who AVERAGE 91 over many classes and AVERAGE 89 as getting 4.0 and 3.0 final grade point AVERAGES only 4.0 and 3.0 grades for one class.

No one averages an 89 without getting something like 40-50% of their grades in the 90s.  What actually happens is that somewhere around a 91/100 and higher your GPA is 4.0 uw and an 89/100 is something like a 3.8 uw.

By the way back at you, at my New England public school in the 70s, it took a 93 to get an A AND THERE WERE NO A-'s so a 92 was a flat B. We had 4 class levels and no GPA bump for higher level classes.

Yes, my class's valedictorian took the lowest 2 level classes, had a 99.XX GPA and could barely read.  Of course, the colleges knew all about our school and didn't care about either what the school called the grade or our class rank.

I would guess that the more "appealing" MCPS grades become, the more MCPS students will be first judged against the top student from their school and the fewer second tier MCPS students who will get into selective colleges.
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