Are your kids getting straight A's at Oakton
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Anonymous
| Mine are not. |
Anonymous
| Your children are in the vast vast majority. It is okay. |
Anonymous
Unless your kid is Asians, it is perfectly normal not getting Straight A's |
Anonymous
And Asians aren’t benefiting from all that work. |
Anonymous
| OK, slight highjack. Are your kids taking all Honors classes at OHS? Trying to decide if taking regular history as a freshman is a better path for my smart, but disorganized/writing challenged rising 9th grader. We would have put him in regular English but only Honors is offered. He is strong in math/science so definitely wants to take honors in those. |
Anonymous
Yes, all Honors. He should try to do all Honors sounds like he can handle it. In sophomore year they have an AP History with honors English combined. I guess in terms of a weighted GPA hopefully it will all work out. All this talk of getting into a good college these days... |
Anonymous
| I have heard that Oakton does alot of grade inflation, so might not be a bad idea to take all honors for the gpa bump |
Anonymous
Even if they are, it is not the norm. |
Anonymous
FWIW, we found that AP World History was better at teaching writing than any English class my DCs took. To prepare for that, I would suggest Honors World History in 9th grade. The type of writing is also helpful when they get to the essay on the SAT. |
Anonymous
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I can't comment on Oakton, but at Madison, in the honors assembly, about 1/4th of the school was invited to attend. This was for kids with 4.0 and above. Of those, about 1/4th were all A's. So 1/16th of the school got all A's.
(My DD did not get all A's). |