perazziman

There is a grade associated with them, but these grades are not counted towards the GPA. They are treated as Pass / Fail on the high school transcript. I believe MIT does a similar thing in freshman year. I think xiggi or silverturtle attended a school district with a similar policy too. The idea was to allow top middle school students an opportunity to experience high school level material at the middle school without threatening to destroy their GPA.

The high school at this district has done two things, first it decided to treat those internal grades as real grades. Then, secondly, decided to weight them on the lower 4.0 scale used for academic courses. This is not how the grade issuing district expected these grades to be used and not how the student taking these courses was told how they would be used.

perazziman

I feel what the school did was akin to taking a child who was in a 10 foot deep academic hole (minority schools with poor education) and built a 10 foot high wall around that hole and said, since you are in a 10 foot hole, let us see if you can jump 20 feet. So, he jumped, went passed the hole, past the wall and continued going higher than 75% of the kids who were standing on the wall and jumping. This is what I believe the GPA says. I am not sure how to put a positive spin on it.