Expunging Grades from 8th Grade/Middle School

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you expunge, child retakes the class. Period. We expunged DCs B earned in 7th in Algebra honors. Glad we did because DC earned an A in 8th grade in the same course.

No need to retake a language class if you drop the grade from middle school - just take a different language in high school. Math classes are another story.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honors are not weighted in FCPS as far as I know, in middle school

Honors Algebra and honors geometry are weighted in FCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you expunge, child retakes the class. Period. We expunged DCs B earned in 7th in Algebra honors. Glad we did because DC earned an A in 8th grade in the same course.

In FCPS, you can expunge and still move up to the next level. You are not required to retake the class. However, of course, the class won't count towards meeting the graduation requirements.

[Anonymous]

^^^so if you need 3 years of a language and you expunge the first year but moved up to the second year, you'd need to get to the fourth level to meet the three years of a language requirement.

[Anonymous]

I'm not reading all 5 pages but know that some schools not on CommonApp have self-report for transcripts and you have to include the MS classes even if they aren't on your transcript.

[Anonymous]

The neuroticism that society is forcing upon Fairfax County folks is obvious. Fake meritocracy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not reading all 5 pages but know that some schools not on CommonApp have self-report for transcripts and you have to include the MS classes even if they aren't on your transcript.

Whoa.

[Anonymous]

Honors Algebra and honors geometry are weighted in FCPS.

Algebra and Geometry (even taken in MS) are considered HS classes and appear on their HS transcript. So do World Language classes taken in MS. Honors Algebra and Honors Geometry are considered HS level Honors classes and get the .5 GPA bump on their HS GPA.