Dropping a class; are grades erased?

[Anonymous]

My kid dropped from calc BC to AB (before the drop deadline--no W will be on the transcript).
Will the BC grades be erased?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid dropped from calc BC to AB (before the drop deadline--no W will be on the transcript).
Will the BC grades be erased?

If it happened before the cutoff, yes.

[Anonymous]

If you are asking about the transcript, then PP is correct that there will be no grade for BC Calculus.

If you are asking about the actual grade for the quarter, then that depends on exactly when your daughter changed levels, if any of the assignments between the two courses are equivalent, and how the teachers decided to handle previous work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are asking about the transcript, then PP is correct that there will be no grade for BC Calculus.

If you are asking about the actual grade for the quarter, then that depends on exactly when your daughter changed levels, if any of the assignments between the two courses are equivalent, and how the teachers decided to handle previous work.

Aren't all the previous grades erased since they are from an entirely different course?
The assessments are much harder in the BC class.

[Anonymous]

We are in this same situation, and it is not entirely clear how this will shake out. Kid wanted to try the challenging class, but determined it was too challenging! To my mind there should not be a penalty for trying to challenge yourself. But these are low grades on high-point tests, so, who knows.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you are asking about the transcript, then PP is correct that there will be no grade for BC Calculus.

If you are asking about the actual grade for the quarter, then that depends on exactly when your daughter changed levels, if any of the assignments between the two courses are equivalent, and how the teachers decided to handle previous work.

Aren't all the previous grades erased since they are from an entirely different course?
The assessments are much harder in the BC class.

At my high school, when kids have a schedule change from one teacher to another either in the same course or dropping down a level, the counselor includes a screenshot of current grades. I will transfer things that make sense, like homework completion or activities that were the same. I wouldn’t transfer something like a failed quiz or test if it is a level change, but I would have the student take any missed quizzes/tests in my class after review with them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are in this same situation, and it is not entirely clear how this will shake out. Kid wanted to try the challenging class, but determined it was too challenging! To my mind there should not be a penalty for trying to challenge yourself. But these are low grades on high-point tests, so, who knows.

how can they keep the grades? They're from a different course---the final grade in the new class won't represent the grade in the new class, it will represent a combination grade. This doesn't make any sense. I've never heard of a school (high school or college) doing this.

I can see keeping some homework completion grades. Completion grades can transfer from one math class to another. But assessments from an entirely different course don't.