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Reply to "What awards does your kid's HS give seniors?"
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[quote=Anonymous]By statute, each Maryland public school gives an award (State Merit Scholastic Award, sometimes called Governor's award of Merit or the like) to the top 5% of graduating seniors. For whatever reason, MCPS doesn't seem to publicize this or let anyone know about it until senior awards night. Since they don't actually rank students, it's unclear how they calculate who is in the top 5%, but in years past at least, in some, perhaps all MCPS schools, they have just awarded it to all seniors graduating with unweighted 4.0s, regardless of whether that, as is often the case in some schools, exceeds 5% of the class (that's just a guess -- at least our school never revealed how they determined the top 5%). With the change in semester grading, more schools may have to go below UW 4.0 https://law.justia.com/codes/maryland/education/division-ii/title-7/subtitle-2/section-7-207/ [/quote]
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