Hate the GPA plus system.
I was an honors student, but I was also in band. Band “A’s”only counted as 4. In AP and advanced classes “A’s” counted as 5.
There were other classes I took that didn’t have a possible “5”...PE, French, Typing to name a few.
Our Valedictorian and Salutatorian both took ONLY AP and Advanced classes with the exception of mandatory PE. In fact, as I remember it, both girls had absolutely straight “A’s” but the Valedictorian had gotten a medical waiver exempting her from PE. That made the difference.
In my school they had a special banquet to honor the top 5% of the class. Out of 444 in my class, I was...23rd.
Irks me to this day.
Yet, we didn’t elevate our grumbles to doing a Columbine like kids today.
I did the math.
I would be irked, too.
That’s what I don’t like is that it’s become a game, oh I can skip gym and add a tenth of a point, I can claim a disability and take two hours longer on a test. Everyone gets an A now and you win by working the system
There is always someone who knows how to work the system. In my HS, it worked the other way around. The valedictorian took lots of easy classes to get As instead of taking the super hard choices. There was no difference between an A in home ec and an A in physics.
I’m WAY past HS and don’t care at all. My advice is not to sweat it. If we’re more than a few years past HS age, then we shouldn’t be focused on our glory days as the prom queen, the quarterback, the valedictorian, or any of the rest of it. We should be focused on the present with plans for the future, doing our best with whatever gifts we have. Carrying resentment over a past event (especially one we can’t change or fix) only robs us of happiness in the present.