[governsleastgovernsbest]

The facts of your situation are beyond my ability to analyze thoroughly.

But I would say they illustrate the increasingly complicated, multi-tiered grading systems that have sprung up. This seems to have to do with the fierce competition among students for top grades, and ultimately for admission to top colleges.

The same phenomenon is also reflected in the drive for extra-curricular distinctions, with students participating in a mind-boggling array of clubs, honor societies, volunteer and charitable organizations, etc.

While all that is fine in a way, and while competition drives people to achieve, my concern is that students and their families have lost sight of what education, and those other activities, should really be about.

Instead, there is a shallow and materialistic focus on the grades and the activities as vehicles to something else, rather than life experiences that should be intrinsically enriching and enjoyable.

[Just mythoughts]

I appreciate that you can't analyze thoroughly, which tells me, I did not point directly where the problem was.


It was about money, the District wanted the money for maintaining student on the roles, however they had no policy and still don't except to rank academy student colleges class equal to high school classes.

The District could have avoided the whole thing by not electing to be the sending school that would present the high school diploma. Handing out diploma means collecting money.

The District made money off the student and then were willing to cause a loss of money to the student by giving a much lower ranking and gpa in order to be fair to the rest of the students.

Student requested the Academy issue high school diploma, hence maintaing the integrity of transcript, without requiring a letter attached to explain the numbers.

Did not sue but sure considered it.