Cotati-Rohnert Park School District in Sonoma County, California, is courting controversy over the restructuring of its grading scale.
Called the “equal interval scale,” it “departs from the traditional A to F scale in which students receive F’s for scores below 59 percent.”
“Instead, the scale awards F’s only for scores below 20 percent.”
Twenty through 40 percent would be the range of “D” grades, 40-60 percent would “C’s,” and so on. An “A-” would be between an 80 and 85 percent which, for most of academic history, has been a “B.”
Regarding the drastically lowered “F,” Superintendent Robert Haley says that “They’ve [students] still flunked, but they don’t have as much to do mathematically to climb out of the F range.”
“It doesn’t eliminate the F; it doesn’t lower the bar.”
Doesn’t …??
Uh huh, right."
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