Wednesday, 16 April 2008

Grades are fungible

$20 says if Jefferson Parish compares the grade distribution now with the grade distribution two years after this change they’ll find no significant difference.

And since when is a 69 a failing grade? Are these idiots on crack? (And by “idiots” I mean the school board; I already can guess the answer for the students.)

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[Permalink] 1. Alfie wrote @ Wed, 16 Apr 2008, 12:45 pm CDT:

What was a D at your high school? Mine was down to 70. Everything lower was a F. I think most of MS is like that.

 
[Permalink] 2. Chris Lawrence wrote @ Wed, 16 Apr 2008, 1:07 pm CDT:

65 I think. My recollection is the grade cutoffs were something like 65/75/84/94 (I remember 94 specifically since it affected me most often, can’t remember the rest exactly).

 
[Permalink] 3. Scott wrote @ Wed, 16 Apr 2008, 1:48 pm CDT:

I’m with Alfie; 70 at my high school was the lowest passing grade. Anything below a 70 was an F. For some reason, I seem to remember an A being 93 and above.

 
[Permalink] 4. Alfie wrote @ Wed, 16 Apr 2008, 2:47 pm CDT:

I went to private school in 9th grade and public from 10–12. At the private school, it was 94–100. At the public school, it was 93–100.

 
[Permalink] 5. Rick Almeida wrote @ Thu, 17 Apr 2008, 7:33 am CDT:

I went to Catholic schools in Rhode Island from k-12, 65 was our minimum passing grade, 90–93 was an A-, 94+ was an A.

 
[Permalink] 6. Jim wrote @ Wed, 23 Apr 2008, 11:14 pm CDT:

Maybe soon they’ll propose the Ledbetter fair grade act. That is, there is not statue of limitations in appealing a grade in which you believe there was gender/sexual/racial bias! Hooray!

 
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