Avona Beach High School Case Study

The Laguna Beach High School’s Administration has incinerated the GPA of its incoming class of freshman. The horrific news came out after the administration decided to demolish the weighted honors credit of a 5.0 instead of a 4.0 for certain classes. Making the new incoming class of 2020 feel abused by the system. The main reason the school drop the weighted grade is because of the UC and USC colleges drop all honors credit classes. Also, how students feel required to take certain honors classes to become valedictorian. The decision was originally implemented for the honors Algebra II. During this school year in the late fall, the district, said that the class of 2020 will not have any weighted classes. The only weighted classes would
For example, the student might not take the vigorous class because its value is equivalent to the standard class. This makes students think that they might as well take the easier class and have better chances of getting an A. This is discouraging to them to take the class because their class rank might become lower and think it’s unfair because they chose to challenge themselves in the harder class. Next, the weighted graded encourages students to put more effort to study to receive the higher GPA. If a student gets a B in an honors class the class becomes a 4.0, like getting an A in a standard class. This would encourage students to try to get the A, because if they don’t get A, and they don’t receive the perk of a 5.0 for taking the honors class. Finally, honors classes encourage students by taking advantage of their education. Students can take advantage of their education by taking their favorite subject class on high scale level, making them learn more about their subject. For the most part, honors classes motivate students because of the higher GPA, their class rank, and by making more of their