Chapel Hill schools may change grading policy
Published: Thu, Jun. 05, 2008 02:11PM
Modified Thu, Jun. 05, 2008 02:14PM
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closeTonight, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education will discuss a proposal to change its grading policy.
The proposal states that 61 percent is the lowest numeric grade a student could receive if he or she gets an "F" letter grade. Currently, a zero is the lowest numerical grade a student can receive.
Fractions of points greater than 0.5 will be rounded up to the next whole number, the proposal says, and homework cannot count more than 20 percent of the quarterly grade.
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"The district's [proposed] grading guidelines prohibit teachers from using grading practices that are punitive in nature or which make it difficult, if not impossible, to recover from isolated incidents of noncompliance (e.g. a missed homework assignment or one low grade on a test during a marking period)," according to the proposal document.
Teachers are angry at the proposed changes to the grading policy and are expected to turn out in droves tonight to protest it.
The Board of Education will meet at 7 p.m. today at Chapel Hill Town Hall, 405 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
meiling.arounnarath @newsobserver.com or (919) 932-2004
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