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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid got his first C (low B in Q1 and mid C in Q2 - would've been a B under the old system) - plus 1 B and 5 As. These grades a more accurate reflection of his work, but it seems unfair for this to happen junior year, even with the letter MCPS will send with transcripts explaining the change. I also have a 9th grader and have no issues with the new grading system overall. [/quote]

Teacher here. A C in a MCPS course is pretty bad. It means your kid doesn’t know the content. It is not hard to earn a C. Either your kid is not understanding the content even at a basic level or your kid has bad executive functioning and is not turning in assignments. Does your kid ever go to office hours for extra support? [/quote]

He just wasn't putting in the work. It was a hard class that was not in his comfort zone and he shut down. We actually know plenty of kids with Cs in MCPS courses (it was just the first time for my kid). Some kids struggle with ADHD, LDs, etc. I don't know what course you teach, but not everyone in MCPS has a 4.9 WGPA, even though you'd think that's the case from reading DCUM! [/quote]

My apologies for boasting, but my kid with ADHD and learning disabilities had a 4.67 weighted high school GPA when he applied for college. Please don't use these diagnoses as an excuse for poor performance. They can explain some academic struggles, I agree. But then what do you do? Shrug and say "oh he's hit his ceiling"? Or actually do something about it?

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I'm a DP, but you're super rude.[/quote]

PP you replied. I acknowledge that, and would never say what I just wrote to someone face-to-face. But it needs to be said, because I get so irritated when parents lower expectations as soon as their kid gets a diagnosis, or struggles deeply in school. Maybe I'm a contrarian, but when my kid was born as a micro-preemie and doctors told me he'd never walk or talk on a normal schedule, I was like "OK, I'm going to do my best to prove them wrong" Which I did. Then as a toddler he was diagnosed with a global developmental delay and all kinds of motor/feeding issues, and we got therapies for those. The elementary school gave him an IEP. I worked with him at home every day after school until he was on grade level. And then he was diagnosed with abysmal processing speed, severe ADHD, dysgraphia and dyscalculia and we worked on that too, with the help of meds for ADHD. And finally during a second round of neuropsych that was done with Adderall, we found autism that his severe ADHD had masked during the prior neuropsych. No one was surprised. That got him residential accommodations in college: single room with private bath.

At no point did my expectations change for this kid. I knew he was smart but needed reteaching, academic support and reminders to do stuff every 5 minutes. He clawed his way into college despite early predictions that he might never make it into general ed!

I just want to tell parents not to give up on their kids.

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