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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]IMHO, 
If your kid does not get an "A" in the HS credit course taken in MS, you should just not take the Semester exams and get that completely wiped out from the transcript.

Why start HS with a bad grade that will ensure that you will never have a 4.0?

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How many kids graduate with a 4.0?  Unless your kid has a 4.0 in MS, I would not make that a factor.  Repeat algebra for a B and have one year less math overall?  And for langauages as PP described you can not always repeat the segments?  I don't consider a B a bad grade.[/quote]

Not the PP, but my kid had fallen behind in a HS language course in 6th and had a C for awhile.  After that I watched the grades on Edline like a hawk.  If my kid had not brought the class grade up to an A before the semester exam, I would have pulled my kid out of class before the exam.  I don't consider a B a fine grade, not if it means that three years later, in HS, my more mature kid might look back and rue that 3.0 on the HS transcript.  My kid has since earned straight As.  Why let an 11-year-old's carelessness end a high-schooler's aspirations for a 4.0 or better?[/quote]

I think you are focusing on grades rather than learning.  That small boost of a GPA might be over shadowed by ending up a year behind in math/language when college time comes.[/quote]

My kid has no trouble learning, but is disorganized and doesn't always get the work turned in on time.  Time management and responsibility have to be learned in MS (especially with the meaningless "P" system in ES), but if classes count for the HS GPA, it can be a steep learning curve for 6th graders.  I wasn't a terribly mature 6th grader myself, but I ended up graduating top of my class, and I am glad I didn't have an 11-year-old me mucking up my chances in MS.  Luckily, there's no falling behind if you drop a semester in language when you start in 6th grade.  My kid would have moved from the 1A/1B class into the slower version.  [/quote]

So just a few months later in September he was able to handle a class that went 2x as fast...I would not count on that result for my child.  [/quote]

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