Stereotypical Asian Junior Needs Advice

midmo
Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:50:08 +0000

^^^It is a college town public, in a town with no private high schools. So, the students are very mixed in every regard. Lots of free lunch kids, lots of professors’ and doctors’ kids. Lots of AP (my son had 12, but most take none), along with a lot of remedial courses. School is large, 2100 in grades 10-12.

The grading and ranking system is appalling. Starting this year, under a lot of pressure, the admin. has agreed to change the grading scale, and A- will go to 90 now. However, they refuse to alter the unweighted ranking, so kids with very easy schedules will continue to graduate far above those with honors and AP classes.