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[quote=Anonymous]I'm the PP who asked about Edline on page 1. Fwiw, my 6th grader is having a very different experience - he got a slew of really lousy grades even in classes where he normally has done well. For him it has been a huge shock to go from the land of Ps and Is to the number/letter grades of middle school. He's seen the direct consequence of forgetting to put name on a paper or sloppy writing. Stuff that would have easily been a P in 5th grade has been graded at a C or worse. Edline was crucial for us in helping him to understand the consequences of all these little sloppy mistakes. He managed to pull his final term grades up to Bs, but only with a decent amount of effort.

I do see a lot of effort in our MCPS school to give kids second chances and other opportunities to raise their grades, so I get the grade inflation sense. (Which is hardly unique to MCPS - I teach at a university and you wouldn't believe the grade inflation in that environment.) But at least in terms of initial work and expectations for 6th grade MCPS, my kid is getting a fairly rigorous grading experience.[/quote]

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