Anonymous
Post 02/09/2023 21:47     Subject: APS - Standards Based Grading
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Anonymous wrote:I actually prefer standards-based grading because it gives more targeted information and feedback. Our current school does traditional letter grades and our former school did standards-based.


What I’ve read is that most SBG policies have “exceeds expectations,” but not APS. And all the comments at our school are largely a copy and paste job. I’d be fine w SBG if it had exceed expectations but middle school should have traditional A, B, C, D, F.


APS middle schools do have traditional letter grades.


Gunston has SBG and the idea is to roll it out to other schools.


It’s fine for ES. Not MS. In MS kids need to get prepared for HS, and SBG isn’t going to get them there. Also, our school still does exceeds expectations, at least they did last quarter. Is that going away?
Anonymous
Post 02/09/2023 21:33     Subject: APS - Standards Based Grading
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I actually prefer standards-based grading because it gives more targeted information and feedback. Our current school does traditional letter grades and our former school did standards-based.


What I’ve read is that most SBG policies have “exceeds expectations,” but not APS. And all the comments at our school are largely a copy and paste job. I’d be fine w SBG if it had exceed expectations but middle school should have traditional A, B, C, D, F.


APS middle schools do have traditional letter grades.


Gunston has SBG and the idea is to roll it out to other schools.
Anonymous
Post 02/09/2023 21:28     Subject: APS - Standards Based Grading
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I actually prefer standards-based grading because it gives more targeted information and feedback. Our current school does traditional letter grades and our former school did standards-based.


What I’ve read is that most SBG policies have “exceeds expectations,” but not APS. And all the comments at our school are largely a copy and paste job. I’d be fine w SBG if it had exceed expectations but middle school should have traditional A, B, C, D, F.


APS middle schools do have traditional letter grades.
Anonymous
Post 02/09/2023 21:23     Subject: APS - Standards Based Grading
Anonymous wrote:I actually prefer standards-based grading because it gives more targeted information and feedback. Our current school does traditional letter grades and our former school did standards-based.


What I’ve read is that most SBG policies have “exceeds expectations,” but not APS. And all the comments at our school are largely a copy and paste job. I’d be fine w SBG if it had exceed expectations but middle school should have traditional A, B, C, D, F.
Anonymous
Post 02/09/2023 21:18     Subject: APS - Standards Based Grading
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I actually prefer standards-based grading because it gives more targeted information and feedback. Our current school does traditional letter grades and our former school did standards-based.


Is your kids d in middle school? Ours is in a middle school and SBG definitely doesn't lead to more targeted feedback.


What APS middle schools use SBG?
Anonymous
Post 02/09/2023 21:11     Subject: APS - Standards Based Grading
Anonymous wrote:I actually prefer standards-based grading because it gives more targeted information and feedback. Our current school does traditional letter grades and our former school did standards-based.


Is your kids d in middle school? Ours is in a middle school and SBG definitely doesn't lead to more targeted feedback.
Anonymous
Post 02/09/2023 21:05     Subject: APS - Standards Based Grading
I actually prefer standards-based grading because it gives more targeted information and feedback. Our current school does traditional letter grades and our former school did standards-based.
Anonymous
Post 02/09/2023 20:45     Subject: Re:APS - Standards Based Grading
Anonymous wrote:There’s a lot of stupid in this system but why is the highest level “meets standard”???? There is nothing higher? Why does APS hate achievement?


There used to be exceeds expectations, but the requirement is that the teacher had to show that the child consistently exceeded which was nearly impossible to do.
Anonymous
Post 02/09/2023 20:41     Subject: Re:APS - Standards Based Grading
Hard to believe that a system full of overachievers expect so little of people without the same pedigree. This week on AEM was calculus is bad. People were tripping over themselves to step up and drink the koolaid.
Anonymous
Post 02/09/2023 20:34     Subject: Re:APS - Standards Based Grading
Anonymous wrote:There’s a lot of stupid in this system but why is the highest level “meets standard”???? There is nothing higher? Why does APS hate achievement?


Not fair to the poor kids who can’t meet the goal.
Anonymous
Post 02/09/2023 20:34     Subject: APS - Standards Based Grading
It’s worthless. I don’t even look at the report card. Crap
Anonymous
Post 02/09/2023 20:33     Subject: Re:APS - Standards Based Grading
At minimum, they should phase it out in 5th grade so the kids get used to letter grades before middle school.
Anonymous
Post 02/09/2023 20:31     Subject: Re:APS - Standards Based Grading
There’s a lot of stupid in this system but why is the highest level “meets standard”???? There is nothing higher? Why does APS hate achievement?
Anonymous
Post 02/09/2023 20:27     Subject: Re:APS - Standards Based Grading
Agree. No one can say the emperor has no clothes because the “e” word was used… “equity”. Parents whose first language is not English may just save us from ourselves.
Anonymous
Post 02/09/2023 20:05     Subject: APS - Standards Based Grading
Very pleased to see the move to SBG getting more scrutiny by local press. The grading system is such a joke.

https://www.arlnow.com/2023/02/09/aps-transitioning-to-new-grading-style-but-many-parents-are-giving-it-poor-marks/