MCPS Valedictorians Selections are Unfair Due to Middle School Foreign Language Not Weighted

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At QO graduation today there were 49 valedictorians.

Is that everyone with an unweighted 4.0? That’s a lot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At QO graduation today there were 49 valedictorians.

SO UNFAIR.

I am not being sincere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At QO graduation today there were 49 valedictorians.

If there are 49 valedictorians, then it's not really an honor worth adjusting your middle-school course selections for, is it?

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At QO graduation today there were 49 valedictorians.

SO UNFAIR.

I am not being sincere.

LOL. I appreciate you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nope. Our MCPS HS had their award ceremony last night. Valedictorian's GPA announced and they got a rare but completely full ride, including room and board and books, to UMD.

I think I was at this award ceremony. If so, they said highest GPA, but didn't same the word Valedictorian.

[Anonymous]

You guys are wordsmithing ridiculously. The kid with the highest GPA is the same as a valedictorian.

[Anonymous]

My kid will end up with a 4.86 wGPA probably. Straight As in a STEM magnet program. The weighted GPA means nothing. What will matter is the incredibly interesting electives and rigorous course-load that he took in HS.

There are no valedictorians and not even class rank in MCPS. In fact even taking APs won't matter because many of his core classes are post AP. Sometimes taking meaningless fluff APs means giving up on taking other interesting STEM magnet electives. Why would he care.

He is not hurting for options

[Anonymous]

Do they look at semester grade or the quarter grade too to determine valedictorians? I was told that if you get any B, even if your college transcript shows 4.0 GPA, you lose your chance to be a valedictorian. Why is this info not shared?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: You guys are wordsmithing ridiculously. The kid with the highest GPA is the same as a valedictorian.

Weighted or unweighted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1-you can take Honors health over the summer/online (even before the pandemic)
2-MCPS says there is no valedictorian/class rank, but this is patently false. Every HS has a valedictorian and a top 5% and top 10%
3-life is not fair - get over it!

Show us a press release with the name of a valedictorian from an MCPS high school. (I’m not holding my breath )

This is a troll post...

Same people who believe Diaper Don will be back at WH with his saggy butt? Or are these some intern comrades working for QAnon and GOP?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nope. Our MCPS HS had their award ceremony last night. Valedictorian's GPA announced and they got a rare but completely full ride, including room and board and books, to UMD.

I work at UMD. We don’t have merit-only scholarships that cover this much. A person has to qualify for this much aid on financial grounds, even with our merit awards. They are income limited.

Exactly. My kid got full tuition as merit aid, which is around 10-12K a yr for IS students BTW. A very good strategy by UMD to sweep up the magnet students and enhance the prestige of their CS and Eng dept.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If your kid has a potential to be Valedictorian, don’t have them take Foreign Language in middle school. I was told about this issue 4 years ago and now 4 years later I am watching it play out in our high school.

Middle school foreign language classes are not weighted at MCPS middle schools so when the advanced students proceed to high school they are literally being penalized with a lower weighted GPA before their first high school class! The student who waits to take Foreign Language in high school or transfers from a private school will always be the Valedictorian at MCPS high schools because in high school the honors foreign language classes are weighted. It’s simply unfair and MCPS needs to correct it already.

Language levels 1 and 2 aren't weighted in high school either. There's no honors until Level 3.

A kid who has 7 levels of language, 5 of them weighted, will have an advantage over a kid who started in 9th and has 4 levels, 2 of them weighted.

I was going to write this.

A kid who has 5 levels of language (3 in MS, 2 in HS), 3 of them weighted and ended with Foreign Language AP and no higher level of FL offered in HS - also comes out ahead of the kid that started taking FL in HS, and only 2 were weighted. In addition, the kid with FL AP, who scores 3 and above in AP exam ends up with the MD Seal of Biliteracy. Also, they free up 4 semester in their schedule to take more weighted electives.

[Anonymous]

Please advise your kids not to care who the valedictorian is ever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nope. Our MCPS HS had their award ceremony last night. Valedictorian's GPA announced and they got a rare but completely full ride, including room and board and books, to UMD.

I work at UMD. We don’t have merit-only scholarships that cover this much. A person has to qualify for this much aid on financial grounds, even with our merit awards. They are income limited.

Exactly. My kid got full tuition as merit aid, which is around 10-12K a yr for IS students BTW. A very good strategy by UMD to sweep up the magnet students and enhance the prestige of their CS and Eng dept.

You are misinformed. The Banneker-Key scholarship actually does cover room, board, and a book allowance in addition to full tuition. I know this personally because a family member received it.