-9 Teachers should round grades, amirite?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

There's a girl in my French class who has a 89.9% right now. She does all of the homework and particpates during class every single day, but the way our school weights tests and homework brought her average down. Our teacher refuses to round it to an A, which I think is absolutely ridiculous because she's such a good student.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

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by Anonymous 11 years ago

I'd round that, but that's a fairly rare case. A lot of teachers at my school make Homework/participation a percentage of the grade and it's ridiculous when kids expect a 79.4 to be rounded up because it's so close.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

it is pretty close. lol

by Anonymous 11 years ago

At my school as long as long as it's a 9.5 it rounds up. She would have an A, someone with a 79.5 would have a B, someone with a 69.5 would have a C, etc.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Im looking at the requirements for A, B, C grades at your school and crying. My school has A at 93 or higher. B as 85 and up. C 80 and up. D 70 and up. F 69 and below. Plus no teachers round the tenth place decimal. Only the hundredths place decimal.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Why is that so bad? Your grade system makes less sense. The A and B ranges are 8 points, the C is 6 points, and the D is 10 points. Why so arbitrary? Also, it up to the teacher's discretion if they want to round or not. Typically it's 90-100 for an A, 80-89 for a B, 70-79 for a C.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Im crying because yours is better

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Oh, well in that case, I agree. It is much better. I'd hate to have your grading system.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I dont see why we dont use the college scale. Its ridiculous.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

In the high school I'm from, that would round up to an A. (Anything that's an 89.5 and up would.) I think teachers should be able to choose whether they want to round in most cases. (For example, if someone got an 89.0, the teacher could choose to be nice and round it up to a 90 or just keep it as it is.)

by Anonymous 11 years ago

There was this one girl who was valedictorian She was an upperclassman too but she had a 89.4 the teach would have given her an A if she has a 89.5 and then she lost her title she was .1 away from keeping her title but she still got straight A's the rest of her high school career except that one blemish I think it all worked out for her even if she was salutatorian she had a extra curricular activities and all that good stuff and she's been successful in college as far as I know she proved that there's more to doing well than a title

by Anonymous 11 years ago

My school does...

by Anonymous 11 years ago

The computer systems for our school already do that.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

89.9% isn't rounded up to a 90% for you? That's the difference between a B+ and an A- for me.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Nope, most teachers at my school don't round. A few do, but I don't have any who do.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Wow that's crazy. By rounding grades I thought you meant like 76 rounds to 80 or something. Maybe that's why you're downvoted.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Haha, no, //that// would be stupid. Is that what a lot of NW-ers really thought? no

by Anonymous 11 years ago