Co-Valedictorians a stupid idea.

bigjake587
Sun, 17 Oct 2004 16:59:38 +0000

Honestly, the whole system sucks. Its good that schools are acknowledging that students taking AP classes are facing more of a challenge than students not taking them by weighing grades, but that has created a whole group of superficial people just striving for the best GPA. Its no longer about taking classes that interest you, or trying to get the highest GPA by ACTUALLY getting good grades (who does that anymore?). Its about only taking classes that boost your GPA. In my school, for example, we got a mandatory health class during junior year. Most kids also take driver ed at this time - both unweighted classes. Guess why our #1 ranked person is #1 - he didnt take driver ed nor any other non-weighted electives - and he managed to push health back to senior yr (when GPA doesnt count). Meanwhile, i got better grades but im gettin screwed cuz i did take these. So hows that fair? Doesnt matter tho cuz colleges look at ur transcript anyway. Good luck to those kids actually learning and not being gay.