My kid got zeros if they didn’t turn things in last year in FCPS. The 50s were still the minimum for test grades, if the score was below that. Are you worried your kid will score a zero on a test or have missing assignments? FCPS gives zeros for missing assignments now, as they should.

You get 2 grades with the fcps DE class.
And yes, kids have been known to fail the DE class in the eyes of NOVA, but passed in the eyes of fcps.

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Anonymous wrote:Retakes to the extent given by FCPS do nothing to prepare students for the real world.

Do you think the millions of kids who have gone to schools that allow retakes are all failing out of college? Or is this exclusive to FCPS?

Occasional retakes are fine, perpetual retakes are the problem at FCPS. They create an unnecessary burden on teachers and do nothing to help students develop effective time and resource management skills.

My kids fcps hs did not allow perpetual retakes: they got one:

We aren’t in FCPS anymore but when a student in our system earns anything below a C average in a DE class they are kicked out of DE permanently because they are not college ready, yet. That never happened to either of my kids so I don’t know if the ones who fail get HS level credit for the class but they wouldn’t get DE credit. Not sure if FCPS does things differently. I would personally focus on making sure that my kid had a firm foundation and college ready study skills.

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Anonymous wrote:Retakes to the extent given by FCPS do nothing to prepare students for the real world.

Do you think the millions of kids who have gone to schools that allow retakes are all failing out of college? Or is this exclusive to FCPS?

Occasional retakes are fine, perpetual retakes are the problem at FCPS. They create an unnecessary burden on teachers and do nothing to help students develop effective time and resource management skills.

Anonymous wrote:Retakes to the extent given by FCPS do nothing to prepare students for the real world.

Do you think the millions of kids who have gone to schools that allow retakes are all failing out of college? Or is this exclusive to FCPS?

Anonymous wrote:Retakes to the extent given by FCPS do nothing to prepare students for the real world.

As a person that went through: FCPS from elementary to HS and followed up GMU; Test taking skills favor success at FCPS.

Real-world these people tend to fail even though they can pass any certification exam. Put them with a real-world problem and they regurgitate text book or first page google searches.

Test-takers hire other test-takers and it kills innovation, they are OK watching the company go bankrupt as long as they are OK.

I'm OK with retakes if the kid learns something and it shows hard-word. The GPA and Standardized Tests are the biggest red-herring ever produced.

Hard-work and willingness to learn is what I want ultimately - I will hire these people. They are reliable workaholics.

Anonymous wrote:Retakes to the extent given by FCPS do nothing to prepare students for the real world.

There are “do-overs” in the real world all the time

Retakes to the extent given by FCPS do nothing to prepare students for the real world.

There are 2 gradebooks-one for NOVA and one for FCPS. The FCPS grade would be entered as a 50 and the NOVA grade would be a 0. Retakes are also different. FCPS grade book would allow retakes to 90 this year and NOVA grade would stand. Uou can have 2 very different grades. I had a student get a C for FCPS but an F for NOVA.

Can a student get a 0 on a dual enrollment class's? I know for the high school grade they will earn a 50% , but for the college grade can they get a 0 or will they earned the same grade?