Anonymous wrote:The zero was the one dumb thing from the past that needed to be eliminated. It makes no sense. It doesn't align with any of the other grading. You can't get a 20 or a 30 or a 40 and a 50-60 is still a fail. It's like people can't even think. They can only react.

Teacher here. It makes sense in one important way: a zero means they didn’t even attempt or submit it which is important for them to know. A 50 for a missing assignment is confusing because then they don’t realize or parents don’t realize it actually wasn’t even attempted. They just think oh I did bad and ignore it. I always input 0 throughout the quarter so they know then change them to 50 if at quarter end they still hadn’t submitted the assignment.

Americans are just so dumb. I can see why the school board flip flops on this stuff all the time. Grading should not be that hard to do.

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Anonymous wrote:The zero was the one dumb thing from the past that needed to be eliminated. It makes no sense. It doesn't align with any of the other grading. You can't get a 20 or a 30 or a 40 and a 50-60 is still a fail. It's like people can't even think. They can only react.

You can get a 20 or a 30 or a 40 on a test. At least, you could when I taught a few years ago. What are you talking about?

No you can't. If you do it, you get a 50-100. 50% is you didn't get correct the minimum amount on the test. The problem is that any type of school system should not have 60% of their grading scale failing and then much smaller discrepancies as being actual grades. Trying to explain this to the typical American seems well over their head so I won't even bother.

Anonymous wrote:The zero was the one dumb thing from the past that needed to be eliminated. It makes no sense. It doesn't align with any of the other grading. You can't get a 20 or a 30 or a 40 and a 50-60 is still a fail. It's like people can't even think. They can only react.

You can get a 20 or a 30 or a 40 on a test. At least, you could when I taught a few years ago. What are you talking about?

The zero was the one dumb thing from the past that needed to be eliminated. It makes no sense. It doesn't align with any of the other grading. You can't get a 20 or a 30 or a 40 and a 50-60 is still a fail. It's like people can't even think. They can only react.

Anonymous wrote:Question for the poster that mentioned “I can” statements for middle school. Do some middle schools have kids assess their own work for purposes of teachers giving grades?

NP. Our middle school used the "I can" statements. DC did not assess their own work for purposes of teachers giving grades.

Question for the poster that mentioned “I can” statements for middle school. Do some middle schools have kids assess their own work for purposes of teachers giving grades?

Anonymous wrote:I think people should wait and see what their individual HSs say. This is clearly not FCPS-wide.

+1000

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Anonymous wrote:Schools aren’t being forced to follow those guidelines.

Yes, they are. Over some things, principals have a lot of control. Over others, not.

So my school is the exception?

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Anonymous wrote:What is a 10-point grading scale?

Every letter grade is 10 points including F. So instead of F being 0-59, it’s 50-59 like other letter grades

So is A now 90-100 because it has not been for some time. A has been 93-100. The fcps website still says this so this is all hogwash

https://www.fcps.edu/academics/grading-and-reporting/secondary/grading-scale

No, an A and A- is 90-100 and a B-, B, and B+ is 80-89. Current and next year district wide.

Hogwash? Read more carefully.

Then nothing has changed and it was unnecessary to include. Again, hogwash. Nothing to see here.

You have missed all the complaints about the (now no longer used in 2024) 4 point grading scale. That means you're clueless, not that this update is hogwash.

Or that you juts have a crappy HS. This is how it's always been in most FCPS HSs.

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Anonymous wrote:What is a 10-point grading scale?

Every letter grade is 10 points including F. So instead of F being 0-59, it’s 50-59 like other letter grades

So is A now 90-100 because it has not been for some time. A has been 93-100. The fcps website still says this so this is all hogwash

https://www.fcps.edu/academics/grading-and-reporting/secondary/grading-scale

No, an A and A- is 90-100 and a B-, B, and B+ is 80-89. Current and next year district wide.

Hogwash? Read more carefully.

Then nothing has changed and it was unnecessary to include. Again, hogwash. Nothing to see here.

You have missed all the complaints about the (now no longer used in 2024) 4 point grading scale. That means you're clueless, not that this update is hogwash.

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Anonymous wrote:What is a 10-point grading scale?

Every letter grade is 10 points including F. So instead of F being 0-59, it’s 50-59 like other letter grades

So is A now 90-100 because it has not been for some time. A has been 93-100. The fcps website still says this so this is all hogwash

https://www.fcps.edu/academics/grading-and-reporting/secondary/grading-scale

No, an A and A- is 90-100 and a B-, B, and B+ is 80-89. Current and next year district wide.

Hogwash? Read more carefully.

Then nothing has changed and it was unnecessary to include. Again, hogwash. Nothing to see here.

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Anonymous wrote:What is a 10-point grading scale?

Every letter grade is 10 points including F. So instead of F being 0-59, it’s 50-59 like other letter grades

So is A now 90-100 because it has not been for some time. A has been 93-100. The fcps website still says this so this is all hogwash

https://www.fcps.edu/academics/grading-and-reporting/secondary/grading-scale

No, an A and A- is 90-100 and a B-, B, and B+ is 80-89. Current and next year district wide.

Hogwash? Read more carefully.

I think people should wait and see what their individual HSs say. This is clearly not FCPS-wide.

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Anonymous wrote:What is a 10-point grading scale?

Every letter grade is 10 points including F. So instead of F being 0-59, it’s 50-59 like other letter grades

So is A now 90-100 because it has not been for some time. A has been 93-100. The fcps website still says this so this is all hogwash

https://www.fcps.edu/academics/grading-and-reporting/secondary/grading-scale