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[quote=Anonymous]It’s not just a problem with implementation or communication.  As we’ve experienced it in FCCPS, it’s a flawed philosophy that does not work in HS.  Teachers not allowed to average grades so students have no idea how they are doing overall in the class.  Tons of formative assessments that do not count for a grade and very few summative assessments that do count, so that the year end grade may be based on just a couple of assessments per quarter, which unnecessarily increases stress and may not reflect how much a student actually learned throughout the year.  Grades based only on “growth” and more subjective and less transparent than traditional grading even though purportedly providing more feedback (which it hasn’t).  Requires way too much training of teachers and additional work by teachers, even though many or most dislike it.  And so overly complicated that the students don’t understand it and even after attending 3-4 information sessions, parents still could not understand it. All of that is apart from the problems in implementation.

FCCPS explained that the philosophy is like training for the Olympics - you have tons of practice and training but the only thing that counts is the actual Olympic performance.  Seems like a terrible model for high school education, particularly when schools claim to care about students experiencing too much pressure and stress.

To FCCPS’s credit, they have recognized that it has real problems and it seems that they are not pushing it as strongly at the high school as before.

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