Fairfax Grading Tough -- 94% an A

momofthreeboys
Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:54:48 +0000

Our school system uses 94% as an A. It is a very small public school, sending about 80% on to 4 year colleges. It is a “silver” USNWR school. I have decided over the past couple years, that colleges can get a pretty good idea of how the schools operate by looking at the GPA, the test scores and the rank. It seems to me that inconsistencies in those reports will “tell” if a school has grade inflation or deflation. I would like to see all schools report on the 0-100 scale. I think that would be more telling. I, too, had one child who consistently would receive 93…which in our system is a B+ and is reflected as such on the transcript and GPA. 0-100 would give a more precise comparison than GPA. Our school doesn’t weight classes either…just a straight 4 point GPA scale.