<p>Oh boy...</p>
<p>I love the fact that I'm from Buffalo, but some things just irk me...
<a href="http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20060609/1023815.asp%5B/url%5D">http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20060609/1023815.asp</a></p>
<p>Well, the student can do what it wants, but not too many places will accept people with 1.0 GPAs; the student is just missing out.
Now as for the administration's stupidity...someone needs to fire the person who eliminated finals. If one will do that, then each semester should be separate and not cumulative.</p>
<p>Definitely...1.0 GPA won't get you anywhere.</p>
<p>But, if you're a senior, and you've already been accepted to local schools like Canisius, UB, Buff. State, skipping half of the year won't really affect you.</p>
<p>Here in Cleveland the CMSD inflates attendance rates to make themselves look better and get out of the "academic emergency" category of schools here. Of course, its high schools are terrible, and few even graduate let alone matriculate to college. The same mentality has spread with black migration into the suburbs; at this time decay is slowly wrecking Shaker Heights and Cleveland Heights; East Cleveland is destroyed, and Warrensville Heights as well as Richmond Heights are getting better. (Richmond Heights less section 8 housing and as such it is more difficult for those from the inner city to come into said places. I don't know what drives Warrensville Heights, but Shaker needs to find out what.)</p>
<p>ARE YOU SERIOUS?! </p>
<p>What irks me is that most places only require a 60 to pass; my district requires a 70 and my school a 75. I've been getting SCREWED this whole time! And, let me tell you... they don't "inflate" grades like other schools do. Seriously, I got a "C" this year and I was still number 9 in our class, letting you know we do have tough standards if the top 10 get "C's".</p>
<p>But, wow, that is preposterous. Don't they give seperate half-credits for classes? That's what you're supposed to do. Make them pass the first half seperately, and let them pass the second half seperately.</p>
<p>That's a very bad move on the part of the school administration, or whoever came up with that bogus ruling. However, the people who abuse it are the people who are going to suffer. I know plenty of people who cut classes regularly. My feeling is, pretty much, if they want to cut, let them. In 11th and 12th grade you should be mature enough to make your own decisions. They can cut classes and just barely pass; I'll keep studying and working hard. Then they go to community college (if they can even get into that), and I set my sights on the Ivies.</p>
<p>Most of my classes count attendance as part of the grade.</p>
<p>I still think it is kind of sad that we consider 65 acceptable. Even worse, I know many of the regents are now allowing anyone with a 55 or higher pass. Lowering standards doesn't help anyone.</p>
<p>How can you get a 50 percent by not doing anything? That doesn't make any sense.</p>
<p>(100 first semester + 0 second semester)/2 semesters = 50 cumulative average per the BMSD grading system.</p>
<p>I blame it on the system. They have failed to create an atmosphere that encourages and fosters learning. That's why people like to cut classes so much.</p>
<p>xyz2004slc, a lot of it probably has to do with regents and other tests. I go to a school in NY as well, and for regents classes, the regents is often the most important thing. Some teachers like to and are able to teach beyond the test, but most need to ensure that their students pass. Maybe I'm assuming things, but a school where a large percentage of the population thinks that a 65 is an acceptable final grade probably doesn't have (in general) very high standards for the regents. These kids need to get a 65 (or 55 in some cases) to even be able to graduate. It's hard to create an environment that encourages learning when all you are doing is teaching to the test.</p>
<p>I agree. We have EOCs in NC. It's really annoying to not be able to have extensions on the info we learn. This is especially true in math--we're expected to memorize, memorize, memorize. There is no appreciation for the fact that math is logic, and pedagogy in math should embrace logic, not memorization.</p>
<p>Ah, how I love standardized testing.</p>
<p>And shravas, even here in Ohio the passing rate on our exam is near 70%, but most schools require a 60% average to graduate; theoretically one can graduate with a GPA here of 0.8, I believe, and OGT scores in the 400 per section.
And the OGT is not even a hard test.</p>
<p>I have a love-hate relationship with standardized testing. On one hand, it takes the focus off of learning for learning's sake. On the other hand, I'm rather good at standardized tests. :P And I have to say doing well on the Global History Regents really boosted my AP World average, as it counted as 1/5 of the overall grade. ;)</p>
<p>But like I said before, continually lowering standards to accomodate people who don't take school seriously isn't helping anybody.</p>
<p>.8 GPA?!?! ***? People criticize Southern school systems, lol?</p>
<p>We have to have a 2.0 to graduate. So, if you have the proper number of credits but a 1.9, you don't graduate until you bring up your GPA. Man, I REALLY got screwed over, haha.</p>
<p>yeah this kid at my high school missed 53 days of school this year, thats more than an entire quarter at my school, and still managed to graduate with the rest of his class. Want to know how? The administration made him clean classrooms at the end of the year, just days before graduation.</p>
<p>I live in the South, and if we miss more than 10 period of a year class, we have to go to recovery for 1.5 hours for each period that we missed in excess of 10.</p>