Dear Editor:
Excuse me, but I don’t quite know what all the fuss is about
weighted grades for AP courses at the high school.
Dear Editor:
Excuse me, but I don’t quite know what all the fuss is about weighted grades for AP courses at the high school. In 1991 the GUSD Board of Education approved weighted grades for advanced placement and honors-level courses. For all the years I taught AP courses at Gilroy High School, proposed changes for weighted grades in AP and honors courses were never agendized for board consideration.
School site principals cannot unilaterally change board policy. Weighted grades are the current policy as they’ve never been voted out. The principal also unilaterally removed AP course prerequisites, and implemented changing student’s transcripts if they didn’t take the national AP exam.
If the trustees vote for anything to do with weighted grades, it can only be to remove the weighted grade policy, or to reaffirm the board policy that has been in effect since 1991.
Board, do your duty, take control and stop this fiasco.
Dale Morejón, Gilroy
Submitted Thursday, May 8 to ed****@****ic.com
