WHAT?!? PC is going to be the death of us all.
This is becoming very common. I don’t like it either. This link below is at a good public high school that sends a lot of students to really good schools.
“It kind of depends what their intention is. If they’re trying to shield kids from competition, that’s kind of pointless. Most of these kids are going to have to deal with very demanding competition their entire lives,” Femec said.
http://www.mpnnow.com/news/x1838788116
When you have 23 students with perfect 4.0 or higher, how do you decide who is first or second? When I graduated from high school, our GPA’s were calculated to 3 decimal points out of 100%. The highest girl had a 96.663% and the highest boy (me) had a 96.660%.
That seems reasonable, because given that different classes have different scales (for instance, AP might allow a grade of 5.0, while internships only allow a 4.0) now the highest GPA is often somewhat arbitrary, and it can lead students to make poor choices simply to maximize their GPAs. Honoring everyone over 4.0 seems like a reasonable alternative.