Avoiding unweighted electives to keep the GPA up

FindAPlace
Wed, 06 May 2009 15:57:07 +0000

VAPA is visual and performing arts. It’s one of the UC system’s AG requirements. Students must have a year in an approved class. Be careful if you are out of state. I discovered at our in state HS that the FILM photography class was acceptable, but the DIGITAL photography one was NOT. Go figure. Even a school board member friend of mine didn’t have a good explanation for this, except perhaps that the digital class cirriculum may not have yet been run past UC for approval.

This was really too bad. I wanted S to have a class that went over the fundamentals of photography AND in the more current mode. Oh well, as least he makes good use of the “down time” while others are in the dark room, by tutoring his friends in math and meeting his community service requirement thusly!