Another Post! Grading Standards...

[kybearfuzz]

I was reading a Yahoo story about grading standards being challenged in Virginia. The school there has the grading scale as being 94 to 100 being an "A" versus the usual 90 to 100.

When I went to elementary school and high school, our grading scale was strangely more rigid than the schools around. It went like this:

• 95 to 100 = A
  
• 88 to 94 = B
  
• 77 to 87 = C
  
• 70 to 76 = D
  
• <70 = F

I have no idea why it as this way, though I've heard it's different now. It does burn me up a bit, as my 3.795 GPA would have been a 4.0 in any other school around my hometown. Any opinions out there why this is good or bad? Any educators have an opinion?

Comments

[squirreltot.livejournal.com]

Hey we had the same grading scale as you did. It wasn't until college that our grading system shifted to the 90-100 A, etc. Hope you are keeping warm up there!

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

That was the same for me, college had many blessings.

I am doing well here, though the cold and ice are a pain :)