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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teacher here.  SIS does the rounding for you.  The teacher does not need to decide how to round anything.  .5 gets rounded up by the program.

Also, SIS allows you to alter the letter grade for the report card without changing the numeric grade in the gradebook.  Many times I've been told by a principal to grade on trends and mastery, even if the numeric grade is 92.3, I can make the letter grade an A if I deem it appropriate.

[b]That said, the entire system this year has been rigged to make it as easy and forgiving as possible already[/b].  The 79.2 or whatever it is was achieved with a million things already in place to make things super forgiving and fail-proof.  Everything has already been put through the 'it's such a hard year' lens.  Would I still bump them?  Probably.  But I dont blame another teacher for not[/quote]

Actually,  this is bullshit.  By using the total points grading system you made it much harder for any student to go up a letter grade.  I left a post talking about this subject and it was ignored.

Tell the schools to stop using total points and return to normal weighted grading!!!!!!![/quote]

NP. You were ignored because you don’t understand the total points grading system. Teachers are not weighting assignments the same. Kids can move up and down just as easily. I saw my son bounce around all year.  Maybe some teachers are not using total points correctly but I like it. If tests are worth 100 points, quizzes are worth 50 points and homework is worth 2 points that will not carry the same weight.

In my experience with my own kids, this system has been so much better than weighted grades. You would see them have one poor quiz grade and the average would barely change, despite doing better on the test, because quizzes are worth 30% and the teacher only gave one that quarter. That’s just a random example.  Teachers need to watch their grades and how they are entered, no matter which system they use. [/quote]

You are confused.  What you just explained IS the weighted grading system.  When you have a class and you make everything equal to 1 or 5 points that is the Total Points system.  For some odd reason teachers think that's a good idea.[/quote]

I’m not confused and I am a teacher too, as well as a parent. I make my tests worth 100 points and quizzes worth 50 points. Why can’t you understand that tests will be worth more than quizzes in a total points system using this method?   You are the perfect example of a parent who isn’t a teacher insisting you know what is best for all classes. I know some teachers who use a weighted system and some that use total points. One isn’t better than the other. Please pick a different issue to hyper focus on. Total points is not mandated. [/quote]

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