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Students say new grading policy will harm juniors and seniors; board and staff weigh technical limits
Summary
Students and a student speaker group warned the board that extending the new grading policy to all grades will disrupt juniors and seniors. Board member Stewart said MCPS lacks technical capacity to operate two grading systems simultaneously.
A group of students told the Montgomery County Board of Education on July 10 that changes to the MCPS grading policy should not be applied retroactively to students already in upper grades.
Sahir Kataria, a rising junior at Northwest High School, said the policy initially was framed as affecting grades 6 through 9 but that it was expanded to include 10th through 12th grades…
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