Texas parents help me out

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Sun, 24 May 2009 20:58:13 +0000

The Texas Uniform GPA proposal has been repealed but our school district has decided to act on some of the guidelines that came from this. One of outcomes is to stop weighting pre-AP classes. Actually our superintendant has stated that he hopes the pre-AP program will die but in the meantime it will continue for incoming freshmen without weight. Among the reasons for this are that there are no real standards from pre-AP provided by Collegeboard or TEA. They also indicated that this is in line with what many Texas school districts are doing and finally that it is felt that pre-AP’s pull the strongest students from the general classes and there is a need to bring up the students in these classes and studies show that students do better in a class with high level students in it. The answer to having multiple levels in classroom is differenciation, the answer to how this will hurt kids striving in the top 10% is that in the Texas state university system this will only affect them at UT Austin. All of this is really frustrating. Tell me if you have any experience, suggestions or thoughts about this. Several parents plan to discuss this at the next school board meeting this week.