Ok, stupid question.
When PGCPS calculates GPA for graduation, do they average each quarter's GPA or do they just do an end of year GPA.
You could feasibly get a 3.0, 3.0, 4.0, 4.0 across the 4 quarters and if they just do a GPA based on the final grade the GPA would be a 4

Does this end up mattering to college admissions if colleges will recalculate based on their own scales? Or are colleges taking the letter grade for what it is?

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Anonymous wrote:I looked at it and it isn't great. I'm not sure if it is out of line with other districts.
Previously they gave numerical grades for the quarter grades and then averaged those for the final grade. So if a student had a 81,81,71,71 for the 4 quarters they would end up with an average grade of 76 and a C.
New policy is letter grades for each quarter which are then averaged so that kid would have a B, B, C, C and end up with a B at the end of the year. This could really impact the kids at the top of the class who are in the running for valedictorian etc.

Do they have valedictorians these days in PG?

Yes. Why wouldn’t they?
There are some amazing students in the county.

https://www.pgcps.org/offices/communications-and-community-engagement/newsroom/graduation-class-of-2023-grad-szn/2023-valedictorians-and-salutatorians

Lots of school districts don’t rank anymore so no valedictorian.

Anonymous wrote:If graduating with a 50 means they can attend trade school or get a job that requires a diploma, so what? It's not like these kids are competing with your kids for seats at selective colleges

'What job requires a hs diploma? Jobs like Walmart, McDonalds, Amazon won't, and Trade school isn't easy for someone who barely graduate high school think they can go to trade school with that attitude is mistaken. After someone graduates from trade school they might be able to get a good job, but they will have to hard for it, they will also have to work when they are working, being a plumber isn't as easy as it looks. There are a lot of 20s something that think trade school will be easy, but a lot will funk out or quit the job because it wasn't what they though it was. It also requires someone to be social, you have to talk to the customer or client if you want future business with them.

If graduating with a 50 means they can attend trade school or get a job that requires a diploma, so what? It's not like these kids are competing with your kids for seats at selective colleges