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?

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[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

The reasoning just was silly to me.

I remember vividly checking the average of my grades in a class when I was teetering on the edge of an A or a B (or worse a B or a C) and one point lost due to some nun's fouled logic would have thrown it.