DD has straight As this year and was invited to the academic awards night. The invitation indicated that kids with a GPA over 3.75 would receive high honors, 3.5 to 3.74 would get honors. So far, so good.
When we got to the ceremony, it became apparent that any one with a WEIGHTED 3.75 GPA received high honors. This meant that over 200 kids out of a class of about 500 received high honors, less than 50 kids got honors. I'm guessing that they didn't want to penalize kids who got As but didn't take honors and didn't want to penalize the kids who took harder classes??
My DD and her friends found the award ceremony insulting. To quote one of DD's friends, "They managed to make high honors feel like a participation award in little kids' sports. Everyone gets it."
How do other people's schools handle academic awards with weighted GPAs?
