Anonymous
12/10/2023 11:24
Subject: 50% rule is going away. Is that true?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Yes. The grading policy was quietly changed. Thank goodness.
I know! It's so wonderful that we can now ensure these good-for-nothings get an F- instead of F. Honestly, you think they'd have better things to worry about.
Professor here. This change will help prepare kids for college, where they have to make an effort in order to earn points.
Uh, professor, the kids who routinely get 50 percent grades are not headed to college either way.
This change will help prepare kids for trade school, where they have to make an effort in order to earn points. Better?
Sounds like you don’t understand how trade school works. Sure there are programs that require significant outside study. But there are also programs that are 100% hands on learning with no traditional tests and no outside assignments. And people who completed these programs are probably instrumental in keeping your day to day life afloat.
People have such a ridiculous knee jerk reaction to the 50% rule, like the kids who benefit would somehow compete with their kids for anything in life. They never even bother to consider the kids who benefit. The scorn for kids who are troubled is disturbing and the failure to see the larger harm for ignoring troubled kids, kids whose families cannot support them and kids with special needs is astounding. If a kid doesn’t get a HS diploma, likely someone is going to have to be supporting them later, like us taxpayers.
What’s the point of school for them then if you just want to give them a piece of paper. You make their situation worse by covering up the symptoms of poor parenting and/or problematic home lives. 50% rules won’t change their generational lot if they don’t know anything. But it will make administrators feel like they are doing good. It’s about feelings of the saviors not the education of the afflicted.
Anonymous
12/10/2023 11:24
Subject: 50% rule is going away. Is that true?
The libs just don't enjoy beating down kids as much, I guess.
Anonymous
12/10/2023 11:21
Subject: 50% rule is going away. Is that true?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Yes. The grading policy was quietly changed. Thank goodness.
I know! It's so wonderful that we can now ensure these good-for-nothings get an F- instead of F. Honestly, you think they'd have better things to worry about.
Professor here. This change will help prepare kids for college, where they have to make an effort in order to earn points.
Uh, professor, the kids who routinely get 50 percent grades are not headed to college either way.
This change will help prepare kids for trade school, where they have to make an effort in order to earn points. Better?
Sounds like you don’t understand how trade school works. Sure there are programs that require significant outside study. But there are also programs that are 100% hands on learning with no traditional tests and no outside assignments. And people who completed these programs are probably instrumental in keeping your day to day life afloat.
People have such a ridiculous knee jerk reaction to the 50% rule, like the kids who benefit would somehow compete with their kids for anything in life. They never even bother to consider the kids who benefit. The scorn for kids who are troubled is disturbing and the failure to see the larger harm for ignoring troubled kids, kids whose families cannot support them and kids with special needs is astounding. If a kid doesn’t get a HS diploma, likely someone is going to have to be supporting them later, like us taxpayers.
I have posted this before. I have a son who benefited from the 50% rule several times in HS. He screwed up or totally did not understand a concept. The 50% helped him recovered grade wise for the semester. There seems to be this idea that everyone is just turning in a series a blank papers and handed a diploma. Many kids benefit occasionally while working hard and mostly doing fine. He is college grad and is self supporting. I think the 50% rule has a place in education...though like all things it can certainly be abused.
Anonymous
12/10/2023 11:10
Subject: 50% rule is going away. Is that true?
This dumbs down the high school diploma. This rule is just trying to help kids pass so they can graduate. They get the same diploma that everyone else gets yet there is no way to figure out who actually deserves it.
Anonymous
12/10/2023 10:41
Subject: 50% rule is going away. Is that true?
If 1 % of accuracy, completeness, and comprehension demonstration equals half, then the assessed grade is falsely inflated because 1% is not half. When we do this it's not doing the kids any favors in the math department.
Anonymous
12/10/2023 09:13
Subject: 50% rule is going away. Is that true?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Yes. The grading policy was quietly changed. Thank goodness.
I know! It's so wonderful that we can now ensure these good-for-nothings get an F- instead of F. Honestly, you think they'd have better things to worry about.
Professor here. This change will help prepare kids for college, where they have to make an effort in order to earn points.
Uh, professor, the kids who routinely get 50 percent grades are not headed to college either way.
This change will help prepare kids for trade school, where they have to make an effort in order to earn points. Better?
Sounds like you don’t understand how trade school works. Sure there are programs that require significant outside study. But there are also programs that are 100% hands on learning with no traditional tests and no outside assignments. And people who completed these programs are probably instrumental in keeping your day to day life afloat.
People have such a ridiculous knee jerk reaction to the 50% rule, like the kids who benefit would somehow compete with their kids for anything in life. They never even bother to consider the kids who benefit. The scorn for kids who are troubled is disturbing and the failure to see the larger harm for ignoring troubled kids, kids whose families cannot support them and kids with special needs is astounding. If a kid doesn’t get a HS diploma, likely someone is going to have to be supporting them later, like us taxpayers.
Anonymous
12/10/2023 06:49
Subject: 50% rule is going away. Is that true?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Yes. The grading policy was quietly changed. Thank goodness.
I know! It's so wonderful that we can now ensure these good-for-nothings get an F- instead of F. Honestly, you think they'd have better things to worry about.
Schools should hold students accountable for their effort. Our “no rules, no accountability” policy isn’t doing anyone any favors.
This is such an odd thing to get worked up over.
They were already holding kids accountable just not the way the poster prefers. Letter grades with point values would be similar for outcomes but the PP is hung up on percentiles. Anyway this is a non issue.
Anonymous
12/10/2023 06:44
Subject: 50% rule is going away. Is that true?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Yes. The grading policy was quietly changed. Thank goodness.
I know! It's so wonderful that we can now ensure these good-for-nothings get an F- instead of F. Honestly, you think they'd have better things to worry about.
Schools should hold students accountable for their effort. Our “no rules, no accountability” policy isn’t doing anyone any favors.
This is such an odd thing to get worked up over.
Anonymous
12/10/2023 06:42
Subject: 50% rule is going away. Is that true?
Anonymous wrote:If people are not going to college any way why do they need falsely inflated grades. What purpose does that serve? It really just shows the education industry is a house of cards based on profiteering and politically divisive motives to get working people in debt.
Who says they're falsely inflated?
Anonymous
12/10/2023 03:34
Subject: 50% rule is going away. Is that true?
If people are not going to college any way why do they need falsely inflated grades. What purpose does that serve? It really just shows the education industry is a house of cards based on profiteering and politically divisive motives to get working people in debt.
Anonymous
12/09/2023 23:00
Subject: 50% rule is going away. Is that true?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Yes. The grading policy was quietly changed. Thank goodness.
I know! It's so wonderful that we can now ensure these good-for-nothings get an F- instead of F. Honestly, you think they'd have better things to worry about.
Professor here. This change will help prepare kids for college, where they have to make an effort in order to earn points.
Uh, professor, the kids who routinely get 50 percent grades are not headed to college either way.
This change will help prepare kids for trade school, where they have to make an effort in order to earn points. Better?
Anonymous
12/09/2023 22:55
Subject: 50% rule is going away. Is that true?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Yes. The grading policy was quietly changed. Thank goodness.
I know! It's so wonderful that we can now ensure these good-for-nothings get an F- instead of F. Honestly, you think they'd have better things to worry about.
Professor here. This change will help prepare kids for college, where they have to make an effort in order to earn points.
Uh, professor, the kids who routinely get 50 percent grades are not headed to college either way.
Anonymous
12/09/2023 20:15
Subject: 50% rule is going away. Is that true?
It's so obvious who the wacky lefties are on the MCPS board. Imagine defending the 50% rule.
Anonymous
12/09/2023 20:03
Subject: Re:50% rule is going away. Is that true?
Anonymous wrote:Good. I’m glad if this change is happening. It shouldn’t be quietly though, but whatever.
I imagine it was kept quiet so principals who prefer it can continue to keep it in effect.
Anonymous
12/09/2023 20:02
Subject: 50% rule is going away. Is that true?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Yes. The grading policy was quietly changed. Thank goodness.
I know! It's so wonderful that we can now ensure these good-for-nothings get an F- instead of F. Honestly, you think they'd have better things to worry about.
Tell me that you have no connection to MCPS without telling me you have no connection to MCPS.