Publisher’s note: this will be our only edition this week; we are taking vacation through the July 4 weekend. Our next edition will be Tuesday, July 8. Happy July 4!
If you want to stir up controversy in your community, talk about making changes to the traditional grading system, as the Williamsburg-James City County schools are doing.
The schools have been piloting a variety of new grading systems for the past two years, we were told by Courtney Mompoint, director of secondary curriculum and instruction.
It would be a change from the current grading system, with a traditional 0-100 point grading scale that is averaged over the course of a school year. Instead, school officials said, they want to help students master subject matter in the way they are most comfortable using and give them continuous feedback on what they need to succeed.
York County schools are not looking at grading pilots, School Chair Kimberly S. Goodwin said.