Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Texas GPAs
After our class discussion regarding standardizing Texas GPAs, I think we all realized the main reason this issue was important was to ensure that schools and districts didn't inappropriately weigh courses, like choir, to give certain students within the district unfair advantages. After coming to that realization, I felt disappointed with the article we read. They really didn't make this point, or at least not explicitly. One of the arguments in the article for not allowing extra points for honors courses is the difference in rigor from district to district. This argument seems quite different when you realize the district to district comparison has nothing to do with class rank and the top ten percent rule. District to district comparison may still be important to students applying to UT or A&M who are not in the top ten percent or out of state. But I feel as though that distinction should be made.
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Molly, I agree with you. I also was thinking about the point that came up that standardizing GPAs doesn't actually change much--just within school comparisons. The way the article reads it seems like it would be a way to compare students across campuses. I honestly don't really see the point of standardizing for within-school sake. It seems like instead maybe they should have some regulations to prevent the choir situation. For example, changes to GPA calculations rules can only be made in a specific time frame and have to be approved by a certain percent of the board, etc.
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