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Anonymous wrote:It doesn’t feed in/average as a GPA but as a numerical percentage. An A (93 and above for the quarter/term) is a 100. (I know this sounds insane but it is true). A B+ is an 89. Most other grades calculate at the highest possible percentage for that grade.

So do the math - your kid can prob get a B-and still end up with an A because those 100s make a huge difference.

This is false. It averages quality points and always rounds up. Your information hasn’t been accurate for quite some time in DCPS.

Ex:

A, B, B, B+
4.0 +3+3+3.3 =13.3
13.3/4=3.325. And that is an A-. This is where the true grade inflation exists.

Is that correct that everything is rounded up regardless of how close to the lower grade? The DCPS grading policy online does not seem to discuss rounding.

Yes. It’s not really policy so much as what Aspen is programmed to do.

Is this still accurate, though? Looking at my kid’s transcript, the average for one class over all four terms is 3.75, which is above the 3.7 cutoff for A-, but the year-end grade is showing up as an A-. This is what I would normally expect, but it doesn’t reflect the rounding-up described above.

Yes. My kid has two classes this year with the grades A, A, A-, B+ (in different orders). That averages to 3.75. Both courses are showing as As for the year. Same kid also has a class with a 2.75 that is showing as a B for the year.

An idea: a few years ago my other kid had a situation where a teacher put some grades into Aspen after the final grades were calculated, so that Aspen online showed an A for the fourth quarter but the report card showed an A-. (This obviously should not be possible. Yet it happened.) Is it possible that something like that might explain your situation?

This is so weird. My kid’s term grades are the same as yours: A, A, A-, B+, but the grade for the year is A-. This is a teacher who would definitely enter grades late so maybe it’s possible a previous term report card was lower. But I can see all the term grades in Aspen, so why wouldn’t the whole system reflect that? Is there even anything to do about this if there isn’t a written policy?

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Anonymous wrote:It doesn’t feed in/average as a GPA but as a numerical percentage. An A (93 and above for the quarter/term) is a 100. (I know this sounds insane but it is true). A B+ is an 89. Most other grades calculate at the highest possible percentage for that grade.

So do the math - your kid can prob get a B-and still end up with an A because those 100s make a huge difference.

This is false. It averages quality points and always rounds up. Your information hasn’t been accurate for quite some time in DCPS.

Ex:

A, B, B, B+
4.0 +3+3+3.3 =13.3
13.3/4=3.325. And that is an A-. This is where the true grade inflation exists.

Is that correct that everything is rounded up regardless of how close to the lower grade? The DCPS grading policy online does not seem to discuss rounding.

Yes. It’s not really policy so much as what Aspen is programmed to do.

Is this still accurate, though? Looking at my kid’s transcript, the average for one class over all four terms is 3.75, which is above the 3.7 cutoff for A-, but the year-end grade is showing up as an A-. This is what I would normally expect, but it doesn’t reflect the rounding-up described above.

Yes. My kid has two classes this year with the grades A, A, A-, B+ (in different orders). That averages to 3.75. Both courses are showing as As for the year. Same kid also has a class with a 2.75 that is showing as a B for the year.

An idea: a few years ago my other kid had a situation where a teacher put some grades into Aspen after the final grades were calculated, so that Aspen online showed an A for the fourth quarter but the report card showed an A-. (This obviously should not be possible. Yet it happened.) Is it possible that something like that might explain your situation?

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Anonymous wrote:It doesn’t feed in/average as a GPA but as a numerical percentage. An A (93 and above for the quarter/term) is a 100. (I know this sounds insane but it is true). A B+ is an 89. Most other grades calculate at the highest possible percentage for that grade.

So do the math - your kid can prob get a B-and still end up with an A because those 100s make a huge difference.

This is false. It averages quality points and always rounds up. Your information hasn’t been accurate for quite some time in DCPS.

Ex:

A, B, B, B+
4.0 +3+3+3.3 =13.3
13.3/4=3.325. And that is an A-. This is where the true grade inflation exists.

Is that correct that everything is rounded up regardless of how close to the lower grade? The DCPS grading policy online does not seem to discuss rounding.

Yes. It’s not really policy so much as what Aspen is programmed to do.

Is this still accurate, though? Looking at my kid’s transcript, the average for one class over all four terms is 3.75, which is above the 3.7 cutoff for A-, but the year-end grade is showing up as an A-. This is what I would normally expect, but it doesn’t reflect the rounding-up described above.

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Anonymous wrote:It doesn’t feed in/average as a GPA but as a numerical percentage. An A (93 and above for the quarter/term) is a 100. (I know this sounds insane but it is true). A B+ is an 89. Most other grades calculate at the highest possible percentage for that grade.

So do the math - your kid can prob get a B-and still end up with an A because those 100s make a huge difference.

This is false. It averages quality points and always rounds up. Your information hasn’t been accurate for quite some time in DCPS.

Ex:

A, B, B, B+
4.0 +3+3+3.3 =13.3
13.3/4=3.325. And that is an A-. This is where the true grade inflation exists.

Is that correct that everything is rounded up regardless of how close to the lower grade? The DCPS grading policy online does not seem to discuss rounding.

Yes. It’s not really policy so much as what Aspen is programmed to do.

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Anonymous wrote:yes you can get bs. It's a bit harder to get Cs if you are submitting your work - requires a hard grader.

You only get to change a grade if it is below a 60something (63? 67?) and then it only goes up to 76. So if you get a 70, you are stuck with it. You can turn in work late, but it's an 86 tops. The old grading policy of retakes if below 86 was obviously much more helpful. My son went from all as with one a- under that policy to a mix of as and bs.

You might be in a class with one assessment grade for the term and you make a 70 on it. Do the math.

The tescher is not following DCPS grading policy if they only give one assessment. One assignment shouldn’t be weighted 40%. That’s against policy.

Yes, they are not allowed to give only one assessment. It is automatically weighted 40% because there is only 1 thing in that category. However, that is why just 1 is not allowed. Unfortunately, this can go unchecked by admin and has happened to my child before at his DCPS HS. (He's a rising senior.)

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Anonymous wrote:yes you can get bs. It's a bit harder to get Cs if you are submitting your work - requires a hard grader.

You only get to change a grade if it is below a 60something (63? 67?) and then it only goes up to 76. So if you get a 70, you are stuck with it. You can turn in work late, but it's an 86 tops. The old grading policy of retakes if below 86 was obviously much more helpful. My son went from all as with one a- under that policy to a mix of as and bs.

You might be in a class with one assessment grade for the term and you make a 70 on it. Do the math.

The tescher is not following DCPS grading policy if they only give one assessment. One assignment shouldn’t be weighted 40%. That’s against policy.

Anonymous wrote:yes you can get bs. It's a bit harder to get Cs if you are submitting your work - requires a hard grader.

You only get to change a grade if it is below a 60something (63? 67?) and then it only goes up to 76. So if you get a 70, you are stuck with it. You can turn in work late, but it's an 86 tops. The old grading policy of retakes if below 86 was obviously much more helpful. My son went from all as with one a- under that policy to a mix of as and bs.

You might be in a class with one assessment grade for the term and you make a 70 on it. Do the math.

Anonymous wrote:A's are also not a sure thing in "softer" classes where grades are more discretionary. If you beef with a teacher (say, a political or artistic disagreement), the teacher is going to win that fight.