Q: Dear Sir or Madam, Q = The announcement of a High School that they are changing their grading scales midstream.
My son's school announced last year (before his Jr. year) that they would begin weighting courses on a 5.0 scale but would not retroactively weight the prior years for students (he took adv. & excell. courses then - as school pushed). Rather than begin this new system for the in-coming freshmen only & those thereafter, and refusing to make a cogent grading scale for a student's duration in High School, there will be a hybrid transcript of 5.0/ 4.0. The school will only attach a letter of explaination with transcripts, which may be considered by colleges, however the scale can not be converted when applied to college admission algorithms. My son is a consistently straight A student who presses for difficult courses. His GPA will, on a 5.0 scale, now be cumulatively an aprx. 4.0 rather than aprx 4.2+ as it should have been if all prior classes were weighted. This could very well be the difference between a scholarship and no scholarship at many universities, or acceptance and rejection.
A: Your concern sounds to be more properly presented to your district's school board. I can appreciate your concern as a parent, but I'm not sure it's of a legal nature.
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