Anonymous
10/28/2025 10:08
Subject: How does new semester grading work?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My high school currently has 1,000 E grades with 50% or lower.
We are hoping this is a wake up call / FAFO moment for the students. We’ll see. So many students just put the bare minimum in and it has been a lifelong habit enabled by MCPS and parents.
Students may have a poor work ethic, but to the best of my knowledge MCPS has never provided direct instruction on study/executive functioning skills.
Why doesn’t MCPS offer a study skills/exec functioning class? Even as an elective or after school or summer school or something?
+1 this should be a semester long required class freshman year.
They did used to have a class like this for freshmen called Connections. This was 5-10 years ago.
We still offer that at my HS
Have you seen positive results from the students enrolled?
I am still a first year teacher so i do not have enough personal experience or data to answer that question. I imagine it works enough to keep offering it.
