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Anonymous wrote:As a parent of a 8th grader, I am a bit confused about the move on grading scale system of FCPS in next school year: There will be only 100 point scale, no 4 scale will be used (?). So, how the kids GPA will be for college applications? Thanks.

That is for classroom teachers to calculate quarter grades. It has nothing to do with GPA. GPA calculations will remain the same. If your kid gets an A for the final grade, that will still be a 4.0.

So 80-89 will now be flat B and no B- or B+ and so just 3.0 and not 3.5 when doing GPA? As are anything 90 and above? To determine if a kids is too 10% of class, so if 100 kids with 4.0, they go back to see if one was 100%, others are 98% or 95% or 90% and do the cutoff by percents?

From where are you getting that idea? FCPS will still have A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, etc.

+1 they are basically banning the 4,3,2,1 standards based grades by teachers for the quarter that some schools have tried recently. All the 10 point scale means is that you won’t need to worry about standards based grading. It’s the normal scale most schools use now.

No, not true. I just attended an SBG session at our middle school last night. Our middle school is requiring all teachers to use SBG and instead of using the 4 point scale they have to translate it to the 100 point scale. So you can only get an A with a 100%. Any amount lower is a "3" and a B - I think it's 86%. A "2" equates to a 72%.

It's crazy town. And of course my kid is taking his first two high school credit classes this year under this system. They are still using rolling gradebook and offering retakes, but teachers can also replace grades as they feel appropriate if they think the student now understands each standard fully. Gives the teacher so much power. I really dislike it.

This was all straight from our principal's mouth.

Yes, this is how it is at Madison

Do you guys understand English? Next year it won’t be like that. Your schools are obviously still doing SBG this year. Next year they will be required to do the normal 100 point scale.

Do you understand English? It’s been stated already that Madison will move to a 100 pt scale, that is completely separate from SBG which will CONTINUE at Madison.

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent of a 8th grader, I am a bit confused about the move on grading scale system of FCPS in next school year: There will be only 100 point scale, no 4 scale will be used (?). So, how the kids GPA will be for college applications? Thanks.

The change is being made to help close the achievement gap.

As far as college admissions go, the practical result will be to help those students from lower SES backgrounds, who often tend to be BIPOC, while curtailing some of the unearned privilege traditionally enjoyed by other students.

This change in grading should narrow the achievement gap and college admissions gap from both ends: the top and the bottom.

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent of a 8th grader, I am a bit confused about the move on grading scale system of FCPS in next school year: There will be only 100 point scale, no 4 scale will be used (?). So, how the kids GPA will be for college applications? Thanks.

That is for classroom teachers to calculate quarter grades. It has nothing to do with GPA. GPA calculations will remain the same. If your kid gets an A for the final grade, that will still be a 4.0.

So 80-89 will now be flat B and no B- or B+ and so just 3.0 and not 3.5 when doing GPA? As are anything 90 and above? To determine if a kids is too 10% of class, so if 100 kids with 4.0, they go back to see if one was 100%, others are 98% or 95% or 90% and do the cutoff by percents?

From where are you getting that idea? FCPS will still have A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, etc.

+1 they are basically banning the 4,3,2,1 standards based grades by teachers for the quarter that some schools have tried recently. All the 10 point scale means is that you won’t need to worry about standards based grading. It’s the normal scale most schools use now.

No, not true. I just attended an SBG session at our middle school last night. Our middle school is requiring all teachers to use SBG and instead of using the 4 point scale they have to translate it to the 100 point scale. So you can only get an A with a 100%. Any amount lower is a "3" and a B - I think it's 86%. A "2" equates to a 72%.

It's crazy town. And of course my kid is taking his first two high school credit classes this year under this system. They are still using rolling gradebook and offering retakes, but teachers can also replace grades as they feel appropriate if they think the student now understands each standard fully. Gives the teacher so much power. I really dislike it.

This was all straight from our principal's mouth.

Yes, this is how it is at Madison

Do you guys understand English? Next year it won’t be like that. Your schools are obviously still doing SBG this year. Next year they will be required to do the normal 100 point scale.

I very much wish this were true, but unfortunately you are wrong here. We will be going to the 100 point scale but SBG will still exist. So an A will be a 100, a B will be an 86, etc. The outcome will be the same as the 0-4 point scale, fewer As and Ds.

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent of a 8th grader, I am a bit confused about the move on grading scale system of FCPS in next school year: There will be only 100 point scale, no 4 scale will be used (?). So, how the kids GPA will be for college applications? Thanks.

That is for classroom teachers to calculate quarter grades. It has nothing to do with GPA. GPA calculations will remain the same. If your kid gets an A for the final grade, that will still be a 4.0.

So 80-89 will now be flat B and no B- or B+ and so just 3.0 and not 3.5 when doing GPA? As are anything 90 and above? To determine if a kids is too 10% of class, so if 100 kids with 4.0, they go back to see if one was 100%, others are 98% or 95% or 90% and do the cutoff by percents?

From where are you getting that idea? FCPS will still have A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, etc.

+1 they are basically banning the 4,3,2,1 standards based grades by teachers for the quarter that some schools have tried recently. All the 10 point scale means is that you won’t need to worry about standards based grading. It’s the normal scale most schools use now.

No, not true. I just attended an SBG session at our middle school last night. Our middle school is requiring all teachers to use SBG and instead of using the 4 point scale they have to translate it to the 100 point scale. So you can only get an A with a 100%. Any amount lower is a "3" and a B - I think it's 86%. A "2" equates to a 72%.

It's crazy town. And of course my kid is taking his first two high school credit classes this year under this system. They are still using rolling gradebook and offering retakes, but teachers can also replace grades as they feel appropriate if they think the student now understands each standard fully. Gives the teacher so much power. I really dislike it.

This was all straight from our principal's mouth.

Yes, this is how it is at Madison

Do you guys understand English? Next year it won’t be like that. Your schools are obviously still doing SBG this year. Next year they will be required to do the normal 100 point scale.

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent of a 8th grader, I am a bit confused about the move on grading scale system of FCPS in next school year: There will be only 100 point scale, no 4 scale will be used (?). So, how the kids GPA will be for college applications? Thanks.

That is for classroom teachers to calculate quarter grades. It has nothing to do with GPA. GPA calculations will remain the same. If your kid gets an A for the final grade, that will still be a 4.0.

So 80-89 will now be flat B and no B- or B+ and so just 3.0 and not 3.5 when doing GPA? As are anything 90 and above? To determine if a kids is too 10% of class, so if 100 kids with 4.0, they go back to see if one was 100%, others are 98% or 95% or 90% and do the cutoff by percents?

From where are you getting that idea? FCPS will still have A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, etc.

+1 they are basically banning the 4,3,2,1 standards based grades by teachers for the quarter that some schools have tried recently. All the 10 point scale means is that you won’t need to worry about standards based grading. It’s the normal scale most schools use now.

That is completely untrue. Madison for instance is using the 100 point grading scale and not grading each assignment beyond the A,B,C,D, and F grade levels. Five grades you can get for each assignment. And then there are standards based grading tricks they do which is separate from the discussion. But the actual grades for each graded assignment is only five different numbers.

No. Madison is currently on a 4 point scale. Plus rolling grade book and skills based grading. In other words a cluster f.

100 point scale will be a welcome albeit slight improvement.

NP. Our school is using a "100 point scale" but it is basically the A,B,C,D and 0 grade levels - you can get a 100, an 86, a 76, a 66 or a 0 (or a 50 if you tried but got everything wrong). Each test will give you one of those grades, and then the quarter/semester/final grade will be on the 100 point scale and then re-converted to the 4 point scale. The final grade can have a + or -, depending upon what it works out to be.

Clear as mud.

It’s clear as mud that that’s not the real 100 point scale as defined by FCPS. 93-100 is an A and 90-92 is A- on the 10 point scale.

Agree. Can I report this to someone?

I think the only hope is a new SB that will replace Reid.

The only way that will happen is if republicans are elected to the Board in a majority.

Otherwise, a dem majority will simply ignore and override any attempt to replace Reid.

My kids' schools is just fine. I don't need to cut off my nose to spite my face and vote in Rs.

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent of a 8th grader, I am a bit confused about the move on grading scale system of FCPS in next school year: There will be only 100 point scale, no 4 scale will be used (?). So, how the kids GPA will be for college applications? Thanks.

That is for classroom teachers to calculate quarter grades. It has nothing to do with GPA. GPA calculations will remain the same. If your kid gets an A for the final grade, that will still be a 4.0.

So 80-89 will now be flat B and no B- or B+ and so just 3.0 and not 3.5 when doing GPA? As are anything 90 and above? To determine if a kids is too 10% of class, so if 100 kids with 4.0, they go back to see if one was 100%, others are 98% or 95% or 90% and do the cutoff by percents?

From where are you getting that idea? FCPS will still have A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, etc.

+1 they are basically banning the 4,3,2,1 standards based grades by teachers for the quarter that some schools have tried recently. All the 10 point scale means is that you won’t need to worry about standards based grading. It’s the normal scale most schools use now.

No, not true. I just attended an SBG session at our middle school last night. Our middle school is requiring all teachers to use SBG and instead of using the 4 point scale they have to translate it to the 100 point scale. So you can only get an A with a 100%. Any amount lower is a "3" and a B - I think it's 86%. A "2" equates to a 72%.

It's crazy town. And of course my kid is taking his first two high school credit classes this year under this system. They are still using rolling gradebook and offering retakes, but teachers can also replace grades as they feel appropriate if they think the student now understands each standard fully. Gives the teacher so much power. I really dislike it.

This was all straight from our principal's mouth.

Yes, this is how it is at Madison

Do you guys understand English? Next year it won’t be like that. Your schools are obviously still doing SBG this year. Next year they will be required to do the normal 100 point scale.

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent of a 8th grader, I am a bit confused about the move on grading scale system of FCPS in next school year: There will be only 100 point scale, no 4 scale will be used (?). So, how the kids GPA will be for college applications? Thanks.

That is for classroom teachers to calculate quarter grades. It has nothing to do with GPA. GPA calculations will remain the same. If your kid gets an A for the final grade, that will still be a 4.0.

So 80-89 will now be flat B and no B- or B+ and so just 3.0 and not 3.5 when doing GPA? As are anything 90 and above? To determine if a kids is too 10% of class, so if 100 kids with 4.0, they go back to see if one was 100%, others are 98% or 95% or 90% and do the cutoff by percents?

From where are you getting that idea? FCPS will still have A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, etc.

+1 they are basically banning the 4,3,2,1 standards based grades by teachers for the quarter that some schools have tried recently. All the 10 point scale means is that you won’t need to worry about standards based grading. It’s the normal scale most schools use now.

No, not true. I just attended an SBG session at our middle school last night. Our middle school is requiring all teachers to use SBG and instead of using the 4 point scale they have to translate it to the 100 point scale. So you can only get an A with a 100%. Any amount lower is a "3" and a B - I think it's 86%. A "2" equates to a 72%.

It's crazy town. And of course my kid is taking his first two high school credit classes this year under this system. They are still using rolling gradebook and offering retakes, but teachers can also replace grades as they feel appropriate if they think the student now understands each standard fully. Gives the teacher so much power. I really dislike it.

This was all straight from our principal's mouth.

Yes, this is how it is at Madison

Do you guys understand English? Next year it won’t be like that. Your schools are obviously still doing SBG this year. Next year they will be required to do the normal 100 point scale.

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent of a 8th grader, I am a bit confused about the move on grading scale system of FCPS in next school year: There will be only 100 point scale, no 4 scale will be used (?). So, how the kids GPA will be for college applications? Thanks.

That is for classroom teachers to calculate quarter grades. It has nothing to do with GPA. GPA calculations will remain the same. If your kid gets an A for the final grade, that will still be a 4.0.

So 80-89 will now be flat B and no B- or B+ and so just 3.0 and not 3.5 when doing GPA? As are anything 90 and above? To determine if a kids is too 10% of class, so if 100 kids with 4.0, they go back to see if one was 100%, others are 98% or 95% or 90% and do the cutoff by percents?

From where are you getting that idea? FCPS will still have A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, etc.

+1 they are basically banning the 4,3,2,1 standards based grades by teachers for the quarter that some schools have tried recently. All the 10 point scale means is that you won’t need to worry about standards based grading. It’s the normal scale most schools use now.

That is completely untrue. Madison for instance is using the 100 point grading scale and not grading each assignment beyond the A,B,C,D, and F grade levels. Five grades you can get for each assignment. And then there are standards based grading tricks they do which is separate from the discussion. But the actual grades for each graded assignment is only five different numbers.

No. Madison is currently on a 4 point scale. Plus rolling grade book and skills based grading. In other words a cluster f.

100 point scale will be a welcome albeit slight improvement.

NP. Our school is using a "100 point scale" but it is basically the A,B,C,D and 0 grade levels - you can get a 100, an 86, a 76, a 66 or a 0 (or a 50 if you tried but got everything wrong). Each test will give you one of those grades, and then the quarter/semester/final grade will be on the 100 point scale and then re-converted to the 4 point scale. The final grade can have a + or -, depending upon what it works out to be.

Clear as mud.

It’s clear as mud that that’s not the real 100 point scale as defined by FCPS. 93-100 is an A and 90-92 is A- on the 10 point scale.

Agree. Can I report this to someone?

I think the only hope is a new SB that will replace Reid.

The only way that will happen is if republicans are elected to the Board in a majority.

Otherwise, a dem majority will simply ignore and override any attempt to replace Reid.

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Anonymous wrote:Let's hope. I've considered moving for this reason and plan to vote against the current school board because of it. Republicans brought in fairgrade and the current school system has managed to sabotage that. If they can't make fairgrade work across all assignments, then there will be a lot of people moving out of the district eventually.

Please do move.

Because you want to see this area fail and become another failed poor suburburban school system like those around NYC?

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent of a 8th grader, I am a bit confused about the move on grading scale system of FCPS in next school year: There will be only 100 point scale, no 4 scale will be used (?). So, how the kids GPA will be for college applications? Thanks.

That is for classroom teachers to calculate quarter grades. It has nothing to do with GPA. GPA calculations will remain the same. If your kid gets an A for the final grade, that will still be a 4.0.

So 80-89 will now be flat B and no B- or B+ and so just 3.0 and not 3.5 when doing GPA? As are anything 90 and above? To determine if a kids is too 10% of class, so if 100 kids with 4.0, they go back to see if one was 100%, others are 98% or 95% or 90% and do the cutoff by percents?

From where are you getting that idea? FCPS will still have A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, etc.

+1 they are basically banning the 4,3,2,1 standards based grades by teachers for the quarter that some schools have tried recently. All the 10 point scale means is that you won’t need to worry about standards based grading. It’s the normal scale most schools use now.

No, not true. I just attended an SBG session at our middle school last night. Our middle school is requiring all teachers to use SBG and instead of using the 4 point scale they have to translate it to the 100 point scale. So you can only get an A with a 100%. Any amount lower is a "3" and a B - I think it's 86%. A "2" equates to a 72%.

It's crazy town. And of course my kid is taking his first two high school credit classes this year under this system. They are still using rolling gradebook and offering retakes, but teachers can also replace grades as they feel appropriate if they think the student now understands each standard fully. Gives the teacher so much power. I really dislike it.

This was all straight from our principal's mouth.

Yes, this is how it is at Madison

Do you guys understand English? Next year it won’t be like that. Your schools are obviously still doing SBG this year. Next year they will be required to do the normal 100 point scale.

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent of a 8th grader, I am a bit confused about the move on grading scale system of FCPS in next school year: There will be only 100 point scale, no 4 scale will be used (?). So, how the kids GPA will be for college applications? Thanks.

That is for classroom teachers to calculate quarter grades. It has nothing to do with GPA. GPA calculations will remain the same. If your kid gets an A for the final grade, that will still be a 4.0.

So 80-89 will now be flat B and no B- or B+ and so just 3.0 and not 3.5 when doing GPA? As are anything 90 and above? To determine if a kids is too 10% of class, so if 100 kids with 4.0, they go back to see if one was 100%, others are 98% or 95% or 90% and do the cutoff by percents?

From where are you getting that idea? FCPS will still have A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, etc.

+1 they are basically banning the 4,3,2,1 standards based grades by teachers for the quarter that some schools have tried recently. All the 10 point scale means is that you won’t need to worry about standards based grading. It’s the normal scale most schools use now.

No, not true. I just attended an SBG session at our middle school last night. Our middle school is requiring all teachers to use SBG and instead of using the 4 point scale they have to translate it to the 100 point scale. So you can only get an A with a 100%. Any amount lower is a "3" and a B - I think it's 86%. A "2" equates to a 72%.

It's crazy town. And of course my kid is taking his first two high school credit classes this year under this system. They are still using rolling gradebook and offering retakes, but teachers can also replace grades as they feel appropriate if they think the student now understands each standard fully. Gives the teacher so much power. I really dislike it.

This was all straight from our principal's mouth.

Yes, this is how it is at Madison

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent of a 8th grader, I am a bit confused about the move on grading scale system of FCPS in next school year: There will be only 100 point scale, no 4 scale will be used (?). So, how the kids GPA will be for college applications? Thanks.

That is for classroom teachers to calculate quarter grades. It has nothing to do with GPA. GPA calculations will remain the same. If your kid gets an A for the final grade, that will still be a 4.0.

So 80-89 will now be flat B and no B- or B+ and so just 3.0 and not 3.5 when doing GPA? As are anything 90 and above? To determine if a kids is too 10% of class, so if 100 kids with 4.0, they go back to see if one was 100%, others are 98% or 95% or 90% and do the cutoff by percents?

From where are you getting that idea? FCPS will still have A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, etc.

+1 they are basically banning the 4,3,2,1 standards based grades by teachers for the quarter that some schools have tried recently. All the 10 point scale means is that you won’t need to worry about standards based grading. It’s the normal scale most schools use now.

That is completely untrue. Madison for instance is using the 100 point grading scale and not grading each assignment beyond the A,B,C,D, and F grade levels. Five grades you can get for each assignment. And then there are standards based grading tricks they do which is separate from the discussion. But the actual grades for each graded assignment is only five different numbers.

No. Madison is currently on a 4 point scale. Plus rolling grade book and skills based grading. In other words a cluster f.

100 point scale will be a welcome albeit slight improvement.

NP. Our school is using a "100 point scale" but it is basically the A,B,C,D and 0 grade levels - you can get a 100, an 86, a 76, a 66 or a 0 (or a 50 if you tried but got everything wrong). Each test will give you one of those grades, and then the quarter/semester/final grade will be on the 100 point scale and then re-converted to the 4 point scale. The final grade can have a + or -, depending upon what it works out to be.

Clear as mud.

It’s clear as mud that that’s not the real 100 point scale as defined by FCPS. 93-100 is an A and 90-92 is A- on the 10 point scale.

Agree. Can I report this to someone?

I think the only hope is a new SB that will replace Reid.

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent of a 8th grader, I am a bit confused about the move on grading scale system of FCPS in next school year: There will be only 100 point scale, no 4 scale will be used (?). So, how the kids GPA will be for college applications? Thanks.

That is for classroom teachers to calculate quarter grades. It has nothing to do with GPA. GPA calculations will remain the same. If your kid gets an A for the final grade, that will still be a 4.0.

So 80-89 will now be flat B and no B- or B+ and so just 3.0 and not 3.5 when doing GPA? As are anything 90 and above? To determine if a kids is too 10% of class, so if 100 kids with 4.0, they go back to see if one was 100%, others are 98% or 95% or 90% and do the cutoff by percents?

From where are you getting that idea? FCPS will still have A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, etc.

+1 they are basically banning the 4,3,2,1 standards based grades by teachers for the quarter that some schools have tried recently. All the 10 point scale means is that you won’t need to worry about standards based grading. It’s the normal scale most schools use now.

No, not true. I just attended an SBG session at our middle school last night. Our middle school is requiring all teachers to use SBG and instead of using the 4 point scale they have to translate it to the 100 point scale. So you can only get an A with a 100%. Any amount lower is a "3" and a B - I think it's 86%. A "2" equates to a 72%.

It's crazy town. And of course my kid is taking his first two high school credit classes this year under this system. They are still using rolling gradebook and offering retakes, but teachers can also replace grades as they feel appropriate if they think the student now understands each standard fully. Gives the teacher so much power. I really dislike it.

This was all straight from our principal's mouth.

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Anonymous wrote:Let's hope. I've considered moving for this reason and plan to vote against the current school board because of it. Republicans brought in fairgrade and the current school system has managed to sabotage that. If they can't make fairgrade work across all assignments, then there will be a lot of people moving out of the district eventually.

Please do move.

Anonymous wrote:Let's hope. I've considered moving for this reason and plan to vote against the current school board because of it. Republicans brought in fairgrade and the current school system has managed to sabotage that. If they can't make fairgrade work across all assignments, then there will be a lot of people moving out of the district eventually.