In that course guide: “Some courses are offered for local credit only and do not count toward state credits needed for graduation.”
The local credit could be a result of the changes, as a way of keeping the status quo for GPA/ranking, or it could just be the schools wanting to boost AP scores by additional teaching. I suspect the former. We aren’t in Lewisville, that ISD pulled up first when I googled.
“It can’t be fixed by that alone because people took ap chemistry without chemistry classes before, suffered grade wise compared to kids who took ap classes that didn’t need as much prior knowledge like an ap art history class. People sacrificed unweighted gpa for class rankings.”
Sorry, I meant just adjusting the science classes. So a student who took AP Bio as a soph gets an A it would be 1.5 credits x 6.0, the student taking it as a junior would get 1.0 credits x 6.0 x 1.5 to adjust GPA. Then everything would be as equal as it could be, except that the very few students who took 2 APs previous to the change would not need 4 science courses to fulfill graduation/college requirements, because they have 4 credits from 3 classes, and I suppose would have room in their schedule for 1 more AP course.
I understand your frustration, my school has changed GPA three times in 5 years, and although I feel it is fair now, it certainly did not help my kids. I would certainly be complaining to make it as right as it could be. I just think it should be your local school board/administration, the TEA was merely leveling the playing field for graduation requirements.