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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So Madison is using 4.0, adding zeros, and using standards based grading and whole letter grading to drop grades as low as they can do they don’t have to do anything to help failing students learn material? Is that the gist?[/quote]

Yes, they are artificially throttling the number of As and Fs. I don’t care about the number of a Fs, I’m annoyed at the lower number of As when most FCPS schools don’t have this policy. It is especially egregious when they are doing away with it next year, so this policy won’t be as visible to colleges for the current juniors. They should have just eliminated it this year. [/quote]

My rising junior's grades at Madison are just fine, thanks.

He is becoming an independent person who has to make decisions about when he needs to do the practice work and when he doesn't need to do it.  And certain teachers are better than others about impressing on their students that the non-graded practice work [i]still must be done[/i].  The kids get it.  This is especially true in sciences and math, of course.  But, history teacher was quite clear that the non-graded work wasn't "optional" --- and my kid did most of it.  We aren't boo-hoo-ing over his A- grades.  He got the grades he was supposed to get.  A 16- or 17-yr old [i]should [/i] be learning how to learn, how much one has to do, and when one doesn't need to do more practice.

I am curious what the plan is exactly for this year.  I'm betting they will show a video to everyone at BTSN.

I don't get too worked up about it.  My kid just needs to listen to whatever policy the teachers explain... and then my kid needs to follow that.  I expect that he is capable of adapting to the plan.  [/quote]

A lot of kids just aren’t capable or as intrinsically motivated to do this. They also have had years of no grades counting for 9 years of school so high school is often the first time they even get grades they start to care about. Many of them don’t transition into caring about each assignment when they haven’t had practice years before. [/quote]

Well, they'll figure it out pretty quickly. Your kids will earn the grade they deserve. All this foot stomping from parents is about how homework isn't propping up the grade anymore. Kids actually have to show masti of the material, not rely on busy work for that A. [/quote]

Except they aren’t getting the grade the deserve or would get in any other school in the county. They are getting artificially lower grades to make the school look better for equity. True equity would be helping the struggling students.  [/quote]

This. If it’s applied unevenly throughout FCPS - or more specifically - applied almost universally in a different way that produces more As - this is unfair. It’s the same as having most of FCPS have an A be a 90-100 and an F be a 50 and below and Madison has an A be a 97-100 and an F be a 40 and below. You could argue that you shouldn’t whine about it - either your kid knows the material or he doesn’t - but when it results in fewer As even if the Madison kids know the material better than other FCPS students - it’s unfair. Add to that that the idea behind equity grading is to help babysitters and workers who absolutely cannot get their HW done, which applies to close to 0% of jmhs’ population. [/quote]

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