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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think one issue is that some schools (e.g., BASIS) give actual grades and some schools (e.g., many DCPSes) give As to anyone who completes the work by the end of the marking period.

My DD has smart, hard-working friends at BASIS who didn't make the cutoff because they're not great at math & study 10-15 hours/week outside of class. She also has friends at SH who turned in every assignment & spend no more than 10-15 hours a term on studying and made the cutoff.

I'm not sure DCPS minds that the grade cutoff is helping kids at less selective schools, and BASIS is more than happy to keep its students, but Deal & charters with HSes will be under enormous pressure to inflate grades even more after the cutoff was so high this year.[/quote]

I don't understand how the kids can be at BASIS and not be good at math. I was a math major and it's about repeation and hard work. BASIS seems to be providing plenty on both ends. There are SH kids at Walls and I'm sure they would say otherwise. [/quote]

I think that the point is that some BASIS kids are doing a lot of work on high-level math and getting a B+ whereas if they were at Deal or Hardy they would be doing lower-level math and getting an A with minimal effort.

So, an otherwise qualified BASIS kid might miss the Walls cut-off because BASIS doesn't have the same grade inflation as DCPS--even though the BASIS kid is doing more advanced work than the DCPS kid.

This is another reason why it is fairer to have a standardized test for all applicants.  That is what Walls used to have, and what other big cities have.  DCPS is really a national outlier here.[/quote]

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