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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Has this gone into effect? Will people cover up their world language 1 and 2 As to get their gpas higher above 4.0?[/quote]

It's a done deal.[/quote]

Why don’t our affected kids know?[/quote]

Although I was aware of the policy, I also came across it on their website a few weeks ago. It's not like they haven't made this perfectly clear to anyone who wants to know.[/quote]

They should have sent an email out to everyone. We didn’t receive one. Can you please post the supposed change in policy? I can’t find it anywhere.[/quote]

We have not heard anything about it. DD has all As in middle school classes, but most aren’t weighted as honors so they bring down weighted GPA. Are you saying they can still be on transcript but not bring down GPA?[/quote]
wait a freaking second.  Are you telling me that one can drop their middle school language classes from their GPA so it doesn't bring down the weighted GPA? Same with not including middle school Geometry grades?[/quote]

Yes.

I wish I had known this last year, though...![/quote]
This is getting ridiculous. My sophomore DD has a 4.0 unweighted and 4.52 weighted GPA. She received A's in her middle school foreign language classes and her 8th grade Honors Geometry class. Are we really at the point where I need to consider dropping her A's from her middle school language classes to bump up her weighted GPA even more? No wonder our kids are so stressed out - talk about gaming the system.[/quote]

Hi, I'm the pp who said I wish I had known last year...

... when my child -- who has learning disabilities -- was struggling with distance learning, failing Algebra and French, and was deeply distraught about what this would do to their HS GPA -- at age 12.

That was not great. Of course I was worried about the kid and not the GPA, but that nugget of info would have come in handy! [/quote]
I have no issue with not counting MS grades in those classes if your child did poorly. I get that. What I think is ridiculous is if kids get As in their foreign language middle school classes and parents want to drop those grades since those As are unweighted and that brings  down their high school weighted GPA.[/quote]

So, the Honors FL in middle school is unweighted and doesn't count for weighted GPA?  What about MS Honors Geometry?  But it does count in unweighted GPA correct?  I guess if Honors FL 1, 2 and 3 and Hon. Geometry taken in HS doesn't count as advanced enough to be weighted, why should it count for count just because it's taken in MS?[/quote]

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