Should public schools have the same grading scale as catholic schools?

Question

I think it's unfair that catholic schools have to work harder to get good grades and public schools don't. If you agree, give 3 reasons why.

Answer 1

I think the public schools should also move UP to the Catholic school grading system.

Our Catholic school has 94-100% = A and 86-93% = B and 78%-85% = C and 70%-77% = D. The local public school has 90-100% for an A and so on, so a Catholic school D is a public school C, and a public school B is most often a Catholic school C.

Two things happen with a tougher grading system. First, students all work harder to get themselves up to the "average" or "above average" grades. This helps build a work ethic that will last their whole lives.

Second, the students with tougher grading standards perform better on academic testing and are more prepared to enter college.

My third reason would be that we should push our young people to be their best, not dumb everything down for them and go for the lowest common denominator. That's my biggest problem with public schools, and that's why I send my kids to Catholic schools.

By the way, our Catholic school is very diverse in terms of both ethnicity and income level. Almost *HALF* our student body speaks a different language at home, and right around half are on the reduced lunch fees program (lower incomes). Our test scores are second highest in the whole city (the highest is another nearby Catholic school), and we don't have an English as a Second Language program -- kids learn English in the classroom with our bilingual teachers -- and we don't have the whole No Child Left Behind thing to worry about. Our teachers are free to teach the way kids need to learn, customizing for individual needs as they occur, and our kids are all doing great.

Answer 2

Catholic School Grading Scale

Answer 3

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Should public schools have the same grading scale as catholic schools?
I think it's unfair that catholic schools have to work harder to get good grades and public schools don't. If you agree, give 3 reasons why.

Answer 4

I disagree. Our public schools are a miserable failure. The public school system and curricula is geared to allow students to pass without learning the material. This is done for expediency, politics and the fact that most parents just don't care. This has resulted in the dumbing down of America. All my kids are grown and gone, but if I had kids, I would either teach them at home or send them to private schools.

Answer 5

Not every public school is miserable failure. If you look at some of the best high schools in the county public and parochial most of are public and private (not parochial) please do your research.