12-Year Public School Teacher Asks Albemarle County School Board To Reconsider Grading Policy
Retired mathematics teacher Bill Munkacsy, a 12-year veteran of public schools, wrote this letter to the Albemarle County School Board respectfully asking the board to reconsider its new grading policy.
Munkacsy and nine other ACPS teachers signed this letter, which was shared with The I Love CVille Network by three teachers and two parents.
“As you are aware, the grading policy has significantly changed over the past two years,” explained Munkacsy, who earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from University of California, Davis in 2006. “With those changes, homework [and] practice [are] not graded, the minimum grade is a 50%, a student can retake graded assignments and there is no deadline for turning in work.” Read More