All itt/breckinridge nursing student!!!!!

mindlor · Mar 14, 2012

I go to school out in las Vegas & I was told by one of our "high ups" that if we wanna get the B average rule changed we needed to get all the schools together to rally against it. We need to get all the students to sign a petition saying we are against this & so is our nursing boards. Please reply back with emails and i can email someone from each school this petition and they can get their students to sign against it. We are paying for this $50,000 so for them to deny us because of a C when that's considered a passing grade is WRONG! please get back to me so we can change this!!!

What are you considering to be a "C". It is common for nursing schools to consider anything below 80 to be failing.

Kbartholomay · Mar 14, 2012

Like what schools??? Cause none that i have contacted they all consider 70% passing

mindlor · Mar 14, 2012

Well every school I have ever heard of.

I challenge you to find another school that will accept a 70 as passing. I think I have heard of some letting 75 slide by.....

Kbartholomay · Mar 14, 2012

I'm not sure where you live but here in Nevada & California they are ALL C. So thank you for your comments but if you not from this school & interested in helping then your comments are not needed. Thanks

mindlor · Mar 14, 2012

I am trying to orient you to reality.

You are wasting your time.

My girlfriend goes to ITT/Breck here in Tampa and we have been down this road.

The grading scale is not going to change...

pixiestudent2 · Mar 20, 2012

They can make there own grading scale. Im assuming if you got a grade for nclex if would have to be a "b" or higher

DawnCaprice · Mar 20, 2012

I am a student at Itt/Breck in Tallahassee and I have NO desire to change the grading scale. It is what it is and I am going to try my hardest to keep 90's. I personally do not want to be a patient and have a nurse that was happy with just making C's. I want a nurse who knows his/her stuff!

I will NOT be one to help or join a petition of this sort. I will also agree with the previous posters, almost everywhere I have heard in Florida requires at least an 80 to pass.

skulskcc01 · Mar 20, 2012

All the Nursing Schools in my area anything less than a 76% is failing. So good luck with that.

NewSN13 · Mar 21, 2012

I am a student at Itt/Breck in Tallahassee and I have NO desire to change the grading scale. It is what it is and I am going to try my hardest to keep 90's. I personally do not want to be a patient and have a nurse that was happy with just making C's. I want a nurse who knows his/her stuff!

Amen! I push myself hard to learn the material because when this is all said and done, peoples' health and well-being is going to be at the mercy of my knowledge and abilities. This is serious business and if anything, I would push to set the bar higher, not lower.

(75%+ to pass in my program, for what it's worth)

OB-nurse2013, BSN, RN · Mar 21, 2012

80% is passing in my program along with most of the many nursing schools around me. I know theirs because of family or friends that went there. 79.5% =failing

Kbartholomay · May 5, 2012

I must say when I posted this when they first made the change and I was extremely upset by it even thought my grades had never fallen below a 85% however I know must say after a while I must agree with you all that I think setting the bar higher wAs better because it got the people out who didn't necessarily belong or put the time and effort into their studying.