Should it be easier to get an A?

Fairfax did it, so everyone should, right? It’s a hot issue in Virginia Beach Schools, and some are pushing to vote on it and soon.

Fairfax changed from a 6-point grading scale to a 10-point scale. That means students who used to need a 94 to get an A now only need to get a 90.

A B used to require an 86. In Fairfax, now all you need is an 80.

Petersburg voted to change to the easier grading scale this month.

Now some in Virginia Beach wants to be like Petersburg.

“It is really about serious money,” says Catherine Lorenze, campaign manager & communications strategist for the group who pushed for lower grade standards in Fairfax. See, students with lower grades can look better to colleges if their lower scores can be an A or B rather than a C. That’s more scholarship money and college acceptance letters if only we could make the bar to good grades a little lower.

Del. David Poisson’s bill, HB 1603, would have forced the 10-point grading scale on all Virginia Middle and High Schools. It died a quick death in committee.

But city by city is getting the pressure to make it easier to pass, make it easier to get an A, and to inflate the GPAs of students without having them do anything radical …. like improve their actual performance.

So I ask you. 6-point grading scale or 10? Should schools lower the threshold for higher grades?

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