I find it fishy this student ended up at Alcorn State? If she is as smart as she claims to be every school in the country will be sending her acceptance letters with full scholarships.
I HS I took 7 years of science classes and every math class I could.
Had a roommate in college, from my same HS that took few science and math classes...I tutored him in Economics.
Taking harder classes DOES count for something.
You mean there was actually a Salutatorian who wasn’t an Asian?
If she can repeatedly speak the sentence “Would you like fries with that?” without any trace of ebonic inflection, she has a bright future ahead of her no matter which college she manages to get into.
So hard to judge these things when “journalists” only give you one side of the story......
“James transferred to the newly formed Cleveland Central High in 2017”
I thought you had to have been a student in that school for the whole 4 years to qualify for valedictorian or salutatorian.
Man.....brains and beauty.
That is true, but depending on what classes the students take, someone that takes all “easy” classes vs the AP classes can have a higher GPA. OR depending on how the stupid administration applies the AP score, an AP class may not give full AP credit. This happened to one of my sons. His AP Biology class was for three blocks, so the first block didn’t get AP credit, that was considered unfair..... to the other students NOT taking AP Biology. My sons took all five AP classes offered at their high school and scored 3’s or above. When my son was not given the Salutatorian status and a girl that took mostly general ed classes had a slightly higher GPA, due to that AP Bio - needless to say, this momma bear went in loaded for bear. Thankfully that administration is no longer at the high school.
Let’s compare teacher summaries and disciplinary actions over those 4 years, too.
When I went to school in the mid/late 1970s, there was a full grade point increase given for what then were called "Honors" courses. So a 4.0 in an Honors class became a 5.0.
The reasoning given to me by an instructor was to ensure that a Shop major didn't become Valedictorian.
I know the Honors Calculus and Physics courses I took really raised my GPA to offset the horrible grades I got in Humanities.
Correct. When I finished HS in mid 70’s, the girl that was third in the class had three years of Home Economics and minimal math and science. I was an athlete that did not much care and finished 11th. My course load was heavy on math and science. But she nosed out some that had a much more rigorous course of study.
Pet peeve: an AP course will show up on your transcript so every college a kid applies to will see it. Giving extra GPA points is ridiculous and nonsensical - kids don’t get more than a 4 for an A+, so why should they get more for the kind of class?
The article is almost purposefully unclear.
If the school gives weighting to AP and advanced courses, that should have been known from the first day of school. Every kid would know it, and every kid should be able to calculate it.
It is in our district school.
Olecia? Someone once posted a thread with the most ridiculous black names, the kind that will ensure that the person never gets a good job. One woman named her daughter urethra because she thought it was pretty.LOL
From the article, paraphrased, in combining the schools, they weighted the GPA based on the rigor of the courses. Under that weighting, she was not the 2nd highest GPA. She played the race card and got her GPA restored. Now she’s playing it again. I guess she learned the lesson well. The defense would hinge on if the weighting was done using objective, not subjective, measures.
Ehh - if the info in the story is correct I tentatively side with her.
I’d have to see the rationale for devaluing the AP ratios at her old (black) school.
Still - I have to question her actual damages. She didn’t get the title, sure - but a black woman near the top of her class shouldn’t have been denied any scholarships merely for lack of a title.
I would assume there is a know policy/calculation that determines this prize. If not, shame on the school.
One of my daughters alway whined that from 95% up you received they same GPA score of 4, basically making an “A” the same as an “A+” toward GPA. I told her to stop whining and that she shouldn’t have slacked off Freshman year receiving those 3 nasty B+’s. I was alway on the other end of the spectrum, so she usually saves her rants on this subject with her mother.
When she complained to the school, James said she was told her GPA would be restored to 4.41 but a white male student was still given the title of salutatorian despite his 4.34 average.If these facts are true, it appears she has both a point and a case.
James said she met with the school district again to question why she wasn't given the salutatorian title and they informed her - without explanation - that her GPA had been lowered to 4.33.