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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Art, PE and Music elective classes should be pass/fail in high school. There is no reason to grade those classes. Students are required to take them as electives to graduate. Some kids are lucky because they have a natural talent or affinity for one or more of those areas, but for the rest of us, it really sucks to be graded. Better for kids to have exposure to these subjects than resent them because they get graded. However, AP Music Theory, AP Art History etc., are truly academic classes and of course should be graded. [/quote]

OPs kid could have taken art history instead of ceramics to satisfy the fine arts credit. Agree that they probably expected an easy A and then didn’t put in the work. [/quote]

why should *everything* about high school have to be hard? What purpose does that serve? I don't think kids deserve easy As, but it could be pass fail or an A could be based on just completing a moderate but not killer amount of work.

I think adults forget how exhausting high school is, and it has just gotten worse. [/quote]

By that logic why aren’t all classes pass/fail? Classes have specific requirements in order to get the desired grade.  If you’d like to petition the BOE and Central  Office for a grading system that allows students the choice of either taking each (or some) courses for grade or as Pass/Fail, have at it.  But don’t assume that the Fine Arts department is going to sign up to have all there classes be the only ones that are P/F.[/quote]

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