While public schools in New York, Seattle, San Francisco and other districts are scrapping letter grades in the face of the coronavirus, Success Academy charter schools is bucking the trend.

“Two weeks ago, in response to coronavirus, the entire city of San Francisco decided to give every student an A,” Success Academy CEO Eva Moskowitz wrote in an email to parents on Monday.

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“Seattle followed suit last week” by ditching grades for elementary and middle school students,” she wrote, according to the New York Post.

The email comes as officials with the New York City Department of Education announced plans to ditch letter grades for all K-8 public school students for the entire school year. Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza said the city plans to assign students grades of “satisfactory,” “needs improvement” or “incomplete” in place of the traditional A-F grading system in a Saturday phone call with parent community-board members, the news site reports.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said the changes to grading are designed to help students falling behind during the coronavirus closure, CBS New York reports.

Other grading changes allow high school students to also receive a “passing” grade instead of a letter grade to minimize impacts to their GPA, as well as a “Course in Progress” designation and extra time to complete courses.

“The goal here is not to fail students,” Carranza said at a press conference with de Blasio on Tuesday. “The goal is to have students master the subject matter. That’s always been the goal. So if some students need more time, this is a perfect opportunity to actually create that system where students get that time.”

The announcement drew an immediate backlash from parents like Queens resident Jean Hahn, who pushed back on the plan on behalf of students who have worked hard for good grades, the Post reports.

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“They want their hard work recognized and not just as a ‘satisfactory,’” Hahn said. “To deny them and many other children of this recognition would be a true inequity.”

It’s the same perspective Moskowitz is promoting for Success Academies, which are among the top performing schools in the city.

“These decisions are made in the name of equity, but the outcomes for children will be far from fair,” Moskowitz wrote to parents.

“True equity honors the integrity of learning,” she wrote. “A child who studies and achieves mastery deserves an A, and the student who struggles but overcomes and earns a hard-fought B deserves that B.

“It would be an abdication of our responsibility to treat grades like candy,” Moskowitz wrote. “Now is not the time to throw out standards and give up on kids.”

The decision to ditch letter grades also poses problems for students pursuing higher education because “it ruins a transcript,” Amanda Uhry, college admissions consultant with Manhattan Private School Advisors, told the Post.

“This is a huge, huge issue,” she said. “Coronavirus will be over at some point, but these kids’ lives will go on, and they will still be applying to schools. A ‘pass’ grade means nothing.

“Are the schools just going to say, ‘Hey, you seem like a nice person, welcome to Harvard’?”