The latest controversy from the school board (unless another one has arisen since I wrote this) was the decision to stop “weighting” academic courses. Some of the arguments for changing that practice sounded logical, and some did not. Hanging over it all — as usual, with this school board — was the question of whether it was just another charade, designed primarily to make the school or the board, or both, look better without any effort at substantive change.
The move will allegedly treat vocational and academic courses equally in calculating grade-point averages. In supporting it, Michelle Capozzoli indicated that some GPA-conscious students avoid vocational courses because they have to compete with the weighted GPAs of the academic curriculum.
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