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Yeah, I like the different rigor that everyone can take, but it does bothre me that in a diverse school such as mine, the special ed, regular, honors, and AP also tend to reflect an ethnic break.
I have my own thoughts about class rank and I'd like to get them out here. Currently, Class Rank is determined by GPA. However when it get's to the top 5% what happens is that kids will take less classes in order to be valedictorian. This is how that works. Say myself and 3 other people are tied at third place in class rank. All 3 of us take 3 AP's (A=5) 3 honors (A=4.5) and we all get A's. The only difference, is that on top of those classes I take another class like art which is regular (A=4). So I did even more work but my class rank is going to drop because it is determined by average. The kids who just took the 6 weighted classes will have a GPA of 4.75, whereas mine, where I did even more work, is now 4.64...
My proposal would be to base rank on Grade points instead of grade point average. That way it accounts for both difficulty of classes, grades in classes, and number of glasses. To determine grade points you just take GPA and multiply by number of classes. This way my extra work is rewarded 4.64...x 7 classes = 32.5 , whereas the 4.75 x 6 classes = 28.5.
To bad I can't get the system changed.
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