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holy crap! not a risk that any 10th grader wants to take with their transcript.  Did it have to do with AP scores or is there simply no logical explanation?  With finals (not comps) that are only something like 30% of your grade?  This really if true should not be allowed to happen.  But given the PP above, it sounds like anything can happen...........
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Not the PP who posed above but it could absolutely be comps/finals/AP scores being factored in. Some of the now 11th graders at BASIS, because they started at 7th or 8th grade, are taking classes that require comps (e.g. Algebra 2) in high school. Since the AP scores don't come until July, those final year grades and GPAs aren't calculated until middle of the summer and, some will 'drop.'

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And in the case of AP test scores, a student's grade would drop without a teacher knowing it because he/she didn't make, create or write the exam. Not saying that's what happened here - no one really knows except the PP - but there are reasonable explanations.[/quote]

The problem with that theory is that if you take the AP exam, it is your final.  If you took the World History Exam last year in 8th grade, you did not take a comp.  So you knew you were waiting for the AP scores to be released in July and to have your grade adjusted accordingly (although one student's grade was not released until October - what if they do that in 12th grade and you are ED?).  I assume with AP electives in 9th-12th if you have the option of not taking the AP exam (don't know about that) you would take a final, which is only usually 30% of your grade - so I think everyone must have to take the AP or an "AP alternative exam" that probably gets graded and counted the same..........

otherwise it would not be fair to the rest of the students.  But if you are sick and cannot reschedule (because you can only reschedule one AP for late testing a year and some of them are compulsory) I suppose that is what you would do with the elective because it is easy to blow an AP if you take it while you have the flu or something.  I think maybe 8th grade is an exception because they don't force anyone technically to take AP exams (although all the kids in AP Calc did).

But this makes no sense.  The teacher at least would realize that the grade would be adjusted.  The student would know that the ultimate grade depended on an AP score.  I am not buying that this is what happened here, because they would have just explained the situation.  This "not BASIS material" business is starting to really get to me.  Yet another scantron scandal but worse, and let us all remember they did not get in front of that (the machine misgraded a retake and the parent checked and found the mistake) - it had to come out on the now non-operative list serve, and I bet they didn't like that one little bit.

It is so ironic that Olga Block came from a communist country (that is why we have no uniforms) and has created her own dictatorship.  Not ironic, sad.  Sad for BASIS, sad for our students, sad for the teachers who leave every year disillusioned, and even worse for students who leave with their chances for getting into college adversely affected.  The later they leave, the worse off they are.  And what if they are not zoned for Wilson?  Here was a student who was in it for the long haul.  They have a way of kicking out real troublemakers because of behavior, but I seriously doubt you get through 8th -10th grade if you are a serious troublemaker.  This one really had me puzzled before, now it is another uncertainty in my mind.  Who were the personnel.  Who was running the school at the time.  Did they kick it up any higher than the HOS? Teacher or parent.

"Not Basis material" = what?  Parents used to say = not the right color and I laughed.  Not laughing so much.  People used to say = children with pushy parents.  Not laughing now.  People have always said = kids with special needs, and OCR agreed after the first year on that one, BASIS paid their settlement, made compensation to their victims, and allegedly learned their lesson.  Not laughing at all now.

Anyone have any other categories to contribute?  What category did this poor kid fit into?[/quote]

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