The Fairfax County high school that largely banished F’s from recent report cards and was experimenting with a no-zeroes policy for students caught cheating reversed course on both policies, according to an e-mail its principal sent Friday morning to families and educators.
West Potomac High School Principal Cliff Hardison wrote that after a week of publicity on the new policies at the school, “it has become clear to me that we do not have consensus within the faculty, the student body, or the parents at West Potomac to change our grading policies from prior years.”
On the issue of cheating, Hardison said he has never tolerated such conduct and that West Potomac “will completely return” to it prior discipline policy. Consequences included loss of credit and notification of parents, with the possibility of suspension for repeated cheating incidents.
The e-mail said that the high school of 2,200 students, in the Alexandria section of Fairfax County, would “return to its prior grading practices that include giving Fs to students who are failing at the end of each grading period.”
Full story: West Potomac High ends ban on F’s, reverses cheating policy after backlash