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Vol. 33, No. 49 | Richmond Suburban News | April 12, 2017
School board gets first look at revised grading scale plan
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ing scale to a 10-point system that brings the county more in line with most school divisions in the state. The proposal contains plus and minuses within the 10point scales and places the minimum passing grade at 65. A group supporting a change in the grading scale claims more than 1,600 followers on Facebook, and proponents of the new policy packed the
school board’s meeting room. Several speakers voiced support for a new grading scale, but the ASHLAND — Hanover enthusiasm of the standing room County School Board members only crowd spoke the loudest. took a first look at a proposed Only one speaker expressed change to the county’s current support for the current grading grading system at last week’s scale, and he was interrupted meeting. several times by a few overzealAssistant superintendent ous members of the audience. Jennifer Greif presented a plan “Do you really believe that that would transfer students universities financial aid and from the current 7-point gradstudent aid departments do not recognize the difference between a 7-point and 10-point grading system?” Major Mansfield asked. “It’s their job to recognize the difference. “I hope we can all remain civil,” chairman John Axselle, Beaverdam District, told the crowd as they voiced comments while Mansfield attempted to Jim Ridolphi for The Local express his opinion. Julie Stubblefield, one of the parents responsible for organizing a group Julie Stubblefield, one of the with more than 1,600 members that has lobbied the Hanover County group’s organizers, pointed to a School Board for a change in the county’s current grading 7-point grading list of facts supporting Hanover scale, addressed the school board. The school board will consider a
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change to a 10-point system at next month’s meeting.
see GRADING, pg. 24
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Landon Dean has a beeline on the next egg for his basket Sunday, April 9, at the second annual Easter Egg Hunt on the Randolph-Macon College campus in Ashland.