FCPS discriminates Wrote:
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> FCPS, along with the Principal of TJ, has decided
> to screw every kid in that school by eliminating
> GPAs for ALL students. Unlike the rest of the
> county high schools, no TJ course will receive ANY
> weighting. In addition, TJ kids will have NO GPAs
> on their transcripts when they apply to college.
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>
http://publications.tjhsst.edu/tjtoday/2000/articl
> e.phtml?ed=September%202009&i=1906
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> Only at TJ will a PE class count the same as AP
> calculus and Quantum physics. Only at TJ will
> students have a lower GPA than anywhere other
> student in the county. Only at TJ will those GPAs
> not appear on their transcripts for college. Only
> at TJ will their students be eliminated from
> consideration for scholarships because they will
> have NO GPAs on any transcript since all
> scholarships require a minimum GPA.
>
> Good news for FCPS, this will dramatically cut
> down the number of students who want to apply to
> TJ. Why go there when their kid can go to a base
> school and graduate with much higher GPA and be
> eligible for more scholarships? Wanna bet that
> the number of applicants is soon cut in half, if
> not more? Is that their real reason for doing
> this? Make things easier for their admission
> staff? Or is it because they hate Asians and they
> know that this will screw poor Asian parents who
> were hoping for scholarships so their kid could go
> to a good college?
Did you even read your link? Numerous aspects were discussed; weighing of summer classes, weighing all classes at TJ since all are honors and above; ensuring that kids take classes that interest them; colleges truly know about TJ (indeed the whole nation does, since two years in a row it was number one in the nation); I can't believe you feel that colleges will view the A in PE as the same as an A in calculus..how silly. And by the way, for scholarships colleges put the grades into their own GPA system, so no fears there.
The transcript will show the courses and the grades. The kids (as stated in the article) will calculate their GPA's anyway, and as I said, colleges configure the GPA based on their system to make it easier to consider students from all schools/districts with different grading, weighting and scales (which made the whole Fairgrade thing silly to begin with).