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:
Daren Sink – School Board - dsink@hse.k12.in.us
Dr. Smith – School Superintendent – bsmith@hse.k12.in.us
Currently, HSE grading scale is this;
Our Scale
A = 100
A = 99-95
A- = 94-93
B+ = 92-91
B = 90-87
B- = 86-85
C+ = 84-83
C = 82-76
C- = 75-74
D+ = 73-72
D = 71-67
D- = 66-65
F = 64 and below
Vast Majority of the Schools in Indiana have this grading scale
Please read the emails, letters, below and then please send an email to our School Board!
A mom recently sent this to Dr. Smith –
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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I had very heated email exchange with Sandra Hollingshead two years ago and her response to me was my son was a lazy student and had to suck it up and do better in school. She stated my son took easy classes and not enough AP ones. These people do not care. They are educated elitist snobs. My son at the time had a 3.01 GPA, 2000 on his SAT’s, was a member of the nationally acclaimed Academy of Finance and a varsity basketball player. His accounting class was at Anderson University Falls School of Business and his economics class was from Indianapolis University. He received an athletic scholarship to Marian University in Indianapolis. Last semester (his sophomore year) he made the Dean’s list as a double major in Accounting and Finance, taking 18 hours and playing College Basketball. He has a 3.45 GPA at Marian. Lazy student Sandra?
An attorney who is Managing Partner with Krieg Devault Law firm also wrote and received the same song and dance. His position with his firm allows him the opportunity to meet with admission people at major universities her in Indiana. Everyone said the same thing. They do not look at HSE grading scale and place it ahead of anyone else. They do not weigh our GPA. A 3.0 at HSE is a 3.0 at Carmel, Noblesville, and Avon etc. Our kids have lost out on millions of dollars in Scholarships because of our GPA. Many of our students cannot even get into IU, Purdue, Ball State and do not even apply to DePauw or Butler with this GPA scale. Go to Mt Vernon and get in go to HSE/Fishers and get rejected. This does not count the amount of money parents are paying for car insurance for good student drivers.
My daughter is a senior and this fight will not help her at all but the community needs to get on board about this issue. I was just a pain the last time and Hollingsworth would not even return my telephone calls or meet with me. I will help organize or speak to anyone at any time about this issue. The administration has a lot on their plate with the funding issue but this issue is just as serious. My daughter will not receive the needed scholarship money she deserves because of the faulty GPA scale, the attitude of the administration and the puppet School Board.
Ebe Cotton
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