I doubt the GC is willing to address it. The district wants to show that they offer a lot and accomplish a lot, but I don’t think they have 50% of the classes offered. One day I will go to the board meeting to ask about it.
4.0 - regular classes
4.5 - honors
5.0 - ap
Our school district uses a weighted 5.0 scale.
Level 1 Courses (weighted 6.0pt max)
Advanced Academic (AdvAcad)
Pre-advanced Placement (PreAP)
Advanced Placement (AP)
Gifted and Talented (GT) courses
Level 2 Courses ( unweighted 5.0pt max)
All general education courses (including all band/orchestra/choir/art/theater/sport classes)
Level 3 Courses (unweighted 4.0pt max)
Courses which are modified in content by the Special Education ARD committee.
Summer school/dual enrollment are not counted in GPA.
@pupulerain re post #13 While I see your point and don’t entirely disagree with you…my DD’s school has weighted “advanced academic (honors) classes”. I can tell you that the pace of the honor classes and the amount of work required definitely exceeds the on level/regular unweighted classes. In a public school setting you have to recall that the school district is educating all different levels of students. Some doing collegiate level work, others who are not; it is definitely an apple vs an orange
@dadof2d have you ever played jazz music? Proficently playing a musical instrument requires hours out of classroom practice. Jazz music is particularly difficult to play competently. I would certainly delineate jazz, wind ensemble and upper orchestra level musicianship as on par with AP/honors level work.
@dadof2d You’re right, that’s a bit unusual. None of our music classes are weighted whatsoever (Except AP Music Theory, obviously). I wonder why they would weight jazz band like an AP class. Is it an extremely difficult ensemble?
We use the same scale but kids can take only AP/IB classes once they satisfy the PE/health ed requirements (and many do), so the GPA can be fairly close to 5.
Is there a practical reason why they use 5.0 for the unweighted maximum and 6.0 for weighted classes instead of the customary 4.0 and 5.0? Or is it like the guitar amplifier in the Spinal Tap movie with knobs that go up to 11 so it must be louder than the normal amplifiers that only go up to 10?