[LM_NET] TARGET: HS - Does your high school weight classes?

[Bev Nelson <bev.nelson@SPRINGGROVE.K12.MN.US>]

Our principal asked me to chair a task force that would examine the pros and
cons of weighted classes.   Some of our staff members are concerned that
students do not take the "harder" classes so that they can protect their
GPA.  Other staff members are offended by the "harder" connotation.  One
staff member said her class may not be necessarily "harder" but there is a
very strong rigor in her expectations - both in knowledge learned and amount
of student work.  How do other districts weight classes?  Or have you
discovered an alternative system which encourages students to take advanced
sciences and math and higher level History/English classes?  We are
currently working on a 4.0 grade point and that is the system area colleges
are accustomed to.  Thanks for any input you may have on this topic.


 
"What a school thinks about its library, is a measure of what it thinks
about education." Harold Howe, former U.S. Commissioner of Education

Beverly Nelson
Media Generalist
Spring Grove Public School
113 2nd Ave NW 
Spring Grove, Minnesota  55974
507-498-3223
bev.nelson@springgrove.k12.mn.us

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