Gaming a corrupt educational system
“C” or better, pass your courses, get your diploma and get off the property. You know the joke about the doctor at the bottom of his class.
Is this another Lake Wobegon where all the children are above average?
Florida student’s historic 11.99 GPA triggers district policy overhaul
A Florida student accumulated a monumental 11.99 GPA through a grueling atypical high school routine, prompting local schools to change how they weigh courses, according to a report.
Daniel Cody
A Florida student accumulated a monumental 11.99 GPA through an atypical high school routine, prompting local schools to change how they weigh courses. ¶The high marks by Vaibhav Bhaskar, who is on his way to Duke University to study finance and economics, earned him a new state record, beating out the Sunshine State’s previous top 11.84 grade point average, according to the Palm Beach Post.
“So, I would say balance is an important thing.” ¶Bhaskar’s course load included 44 advanced placement and dual college enrollment classes.
Florida student’s historic 11.99 GPA triggers district policy overhaul
A Florida student accumulated a monumental 11.99 GPA through a grueling atypical high school routine, prompting local schools to change how they weigh courses, according to a report.
Daniel Cody
Hillsborough's old GPA system had no ceiling. Per the Tampa Bay Times, honors classes added 0.04 points, and AP, dual enrollment, IB or Cambridge AICE classes added 0.08 points, and those points kept stacking, no matter how many advanced courses a student piled on. ¶So Bhaskar piled on. Six AP classes in sophomore year. Eight junior year. Dual enrollment through UF and Hillsborough College. Online classes through Florida Virtual School every summer. He gave up lunch for an extra AP period and left campus during fourth period to squeeze in more coursework, the Tampa Bay Times reported.
Florida kid gets historic 11.99 GPA, forcing district to change policy
Here’s why no Palm Beach County student can flirt with Vaibhav Bhaskar’s record 11.99 GPA, and why it never can happen again where he attended school.
Emmy Bailey
Palm Beach County uses an Honors Point Average system instead of stacking bonus points endlessly; it averages them. A regular A is worth 4.0, and honors-level courses bump that to 4.5, according to the district's Advanced Placement course guidance. ¶"Under the School District of Palm Beach County HPA system, accelerated courses (AP, AICE, IB, Dual Enrollment) max out at a point value of 6.0 for an 'A,'" said Steven King, media relations specialist for the School District of Palm Beach County. "Since the District uses an average system, dividing total points by total classes, rather than an additive system, the absolute mathematical ceiling for a Palm Beach County graduate is a perfect 6.0 HPA."
Florida is raising a generation of white collar criminals with skewed college admissions privileges. Goody two shoes their GPAs are turning into swindlers and con artists throughout the nation.