Maryland high schools in Prince George County are about to take a very big plunge into a new grading system that, ironically, will not take the grades themselves with them. According to NBC Washington, Maryland high schools in Prince George County will ban the idea of giving zero as a grade. The Maryland high school board in Prince George County convened to take up the notion of making the lowest grade a student could receive in the first three-quarters of the semester, a fifty.
Maryland high school students in the county can currently earn failing grades from zero to 59, which would earn them a letter grade of an "F." The ban of the old grading scale of zero to 59 won't be completely abolished per se, and the prior grade scale will be used in these particular Maryland high schools. However, it is only if the high school students show "effort." Maryland elementary school students in the same county already are following this system.
These high school teachers in Maryland are also not allowed to factor a student's behavior into the grading process.
Some Maryland residents in Prince George County find this potential move to be a step in the right direction to stop high schools students from quitting mid-semester, and to "reduce inequity" in the grades these students earn.