{"id":1592,"date":"2021-04-10T12:25:03","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T16:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tjptsa.com\/?p=1592"},"modified":"2021-04-25T18:10:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T22:10:48","slug":"2021-04-11grade-guideline-changes-for-2020-21-school-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tjptsa.com\/archive\/2021-04-11grade-guideline-changes-for-2020-21-school-year\/","title":{"rendered":"2021-04-11 Grade Guideline Changes for 2020-21 School Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was sent out by Principal Ann N. Bonitatibus on 04\/09\/2021. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As shared in an email from the Superintendent\u2019s Office,&nbsp;FCPS&nbsp;has adopted a series of secondary grading policy changes to help our students achieve a strong finish to the school year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In conjunction with&nbsp;FCPS, TJ is adjusting its grading policy for the 2020-21 school year to ensure students are not penalized by the challenges brought on by pandemic learning.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Key policy changes for students are listed below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Final Exam flexibility that ensures an exam can only serve to improve a student\u2019s grade for the year. Teachers will apply this in their grading practices for each class.<\/li><li>Use of No Mark, \u201cNM\u201d, instead of \u201cF\u201d grades for all courses. This will be automatically applied for any course in which a student receives an \u201cF.\u201d<\/li><li>Allowing students to select a mark of \u201cP\u201d for pass for up to two courses for which a passing grade is earned for the final mark.&nbsp;<ul><li><strong>ACTION NEEDED: Should you wish to designate one or two courses as Pass &#8211; No Mark status,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flnks.gd%2Fl%2FeyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMDMsInVyaSI6ImJwMjpjbGljayIsImJ1bGxldGluX2lkIjoiMjAyMTA0MDkuMzg1MzkyMjEiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5mY3BzLmVkdS9zaXRlcy9kZWZhdWx0L2ZpbGVzL21lZGlhL2Zvcm1zL3NlMzU5LnBkZj91dG1fY29udGVudD0mdXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbCZ1dG1fbmFtZT0mdXRtX3NvdXJjZT1nb3ZkZWxpdmVyeSZ1dG1fdGVybT0ifQ.RcwSNOhTAjqlBvvRKCIkQQiES51LelLqj4L9w_Xcgrg%2Fs%2F566769364%2Fbr%2F101773293491-l&amp;data=04%7C01%7C%7Cdf6315d77f524f0055af08d8fb9234c4%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637535952659986505%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=ssoTHytpQxArofcxvwCGngsjot5IQydZ5uZbhyuUcSk%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">submit this form<\/a>&nbsp;to your school counselor by May 10, 2021.<\/strong><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was sent out by Principal Ann N. Bonitatibus on 04\/09\/2021. As shared in an email from the Superintendent\u2019s Office,&nbsp;FCPS&nbsp;has adopted a series of secondary grading policy changes to help our students achieve a strong finish to the school year. In conjunction with&nbsp;FCPS, TJ is adjusting its grading policy for the 2020-21 school year to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-past-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tjptsa.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tjptsa.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tjptsa.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tjptsa.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tjptsa.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1592"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tjptsa.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1643,"href":"https:\/\/tjptsa.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions\/1643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tjptsa.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tjptsa.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tjptsa.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}