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[quote=Anonymous]I do think it’s gojng to be harsh for the current rising junior.  I have one that has really struggled with some SN and it is breaking my heart a little to throw this at them too.  We are not looking at ivies — I would throw a huge happy dance to get them into UMD which is really hard from McPS.

One problem is that colleges really look for grade improvement from 9th to 11th grade.  These kids are all likely to see a grade slide….and not every college is going to be up to speed on the fact that McPS totally changed their grading system.

I think the kids most affected are going to be those in the academic donut hole — not the top students gunning for the ivies but the average kids that are hoping to get into UMD or a decent state school.  Some of those lower tier out of state schools basically do admits exclusively on sat and gpa so a gpa hit knocks you out of the running for what was previously an out of state safety school.

I’m also worried about the teachers coming up with end of year exams when they’ve never done this before.  They won’t have a chance to norm those exams — next year’s kids will be basically guinea pigs.  I wonder if the AP teachers will basically just use a prior AP as the final.  That way at least it’s been vetted as a fair measure.

A lot of this is not necessarily a bad idea but I just totally do not trust MCPS to implement in a fair sensible way, or give the teachers the time and resources to figure it out.  These kids have already been through how many curricula changes?  All implemented badly and each time they lose ground as the teachers struggle to make sense of the central office changes.
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