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AND: Is it normal here for a 92% to be a B? My youngest bombed a social studies "pop quiz" with a 70%, which was failing!
Yes. Think it's all of NC. Puts the kids here at a disadvantage, IMHO, because most other places a 90 is an "A".
When I was in HS our actual % went on our report card. If your average was an 89%, that's what was on your report card. They left it to colleges to translate.
I think most public schools use a 7 point grading scale in middle and high school, so yeah, a 92 is a B and 70 is s D.
Even in elementary school they do out here. I was shocked, especially since they don't look at kids' work to see what they did, if they deserve partial credit (understand a math concept, but made an error somewhere vs no idea what to do) which is how I was taught to interpret grades. Here in JoCo if it's wrong, it's wrong and as her teacher said, if kids dont maintain a 70% average, there is no promotion. Seems harsh. Not all kids can maintain 70% in all subjects and my middle one is cutting it pretty close in social studies-not at all good at memorizing all of those facts/dates in 5th grade-especially when they are "pop quizzes".
I don't think the 7 pt grading scale is just a North Carolina thing. According to wikipedia (ie: it could be wrong) "Some states, such as South Carolina, Indiana, Louisiana, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Illinois and Virginia [may use the 7 pt scale]".
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I don't think the 7 pt grading scale is just a North Carolina thing. According to wikipedia (ie: it could be wrong) "Some states, such as South Carolina, Indiana, Louisiana, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Illinois and Virginia [may use the 7 pt scale]".
Yes, our school growing up in PA used the 7-point scale: 94-100=A, 86-93=B, etc. At some point, they started putting numbers on our report card because what the letter grade represented wasn't standard across schools.
Our nation needs to go forward together as one, on the same page, educationally speaking. It's sheer nonsense for a student to have to move from Arizona to Ohio, and be faced with a totally different curriculum all across the board.
Teachers and students alike, must be encouraged to pursue more rigorous standards that will facilitate greater cohesive learning within each classroom, together. This way, teachers with better ideas about teaching certain concepts can share with other teachers via Skype, email, text, create videos, etc.. as they package these ideas in communication. I see this as being nothing but more than yet, another opportunity for both student and teacher educational enrichment.
Our nation needs to go forward together as one, on the same page, educationally speaking. It's sheer nonsense for a student to have to move from Arizona to Ohio, and be faced with a totally different curriculum all across the board.
Good luck with that. Not happening here, it seems.
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