Hamilton Southeastern Schools Grading scale

Hamilton Southeastern School District Parents,

Please get involved in changing our grading scale back inline with the rest of the States schools…… public and private!  It’s not going to take any money to fix this problem, it may just take some time to get parents involved to make the point to our School Board!

Please drop a quick email to:

Dear Dr. Smith,

I would like to welcome you to Hamilton Southeastern Schools(HSE).  I hope you have a long and successful tenure in our school system.The purpose of my letter is to encourage you to take a serious look at the grading scale currently used at HSE.  We are asking our kids to compete for admission to colleges and universities with other students whose grading scales allow them to achieve higher GPA’s because their schools use a 90,80,70,60 scale.  I have researched the grading scales used by several of the public & private schools in our area.  The following schools use a 90,80,70,60 grading scale:  Carmel, Cathedral, Berbuef, North Central, Lawrence Central, Noblesville and Zionsville.   The students from these schools receive easier admission to post secondary education and access to more scholarship dollars not because they take more difficult courses or score better on tests but because an A for them is a B/B- for our students.

In addition to the negative impact on our graduating seniors this grading scale is also having a negative impact on our younger students.  Even the highly motivated student gets discouraged when he/she misses one on a test and receives a B.  We need to encourage our younger students to believe they can succeed, not defeat them before they get started.  We should be encouraging our students young and old to try new things and be involved in things outside the classroom.  Many of our students have to limit their extracurricular activities to maintain their grades.  We should be developing well rounded students who will be ready for the next level of their studies and their future careers.

I have had discussions with fifty plus families regarding this issue and they all are in agreement about our grading scale.  I would appreciate an opportunity to discuss this with you and or learn about the process involved to initiate discussion and potentially change the grading scale.

Sincerely

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