Hoping some of my fellow Kershaw County School District parents with older kids can help clarify something for me. Im reading through the letter I got today about Brianna Scott meeting the criteria for placement in high school courses next year. I tried to call Stover to clarify, but I guess they close early on Fridays during the summer. The first bullet point says: * Kershaw County School District eighth grade students who successfully complete English I and/or Algebra I and who take the State Department of Education End of Course examinations in these subjects will be awarded core academic credit that is applicable to their South Carolina high school diploma. Students who successfully complete Spanish I will receive one unit of credit applied to their South Carolina high school diploma. A few bullet points down it says: * A student who has taken a course for a Carnegie unit prior to his or her ninth grade year may retake that course regardless of the grade he or she has earned. In such a case, only the retake grade will be used in figuring the students GPA, and only the retake attempt will show on the transcript. This rule will apply whether the retake grade is higher or lower than the grade the student previously earned. The 8th grade student must retake the course the next school year at the same level of difficulty and must retake the course before he or she has enrolled in the next sequential course. Next bullet point: * English I and Algebra I are weighted at the college prep level just as it exists in the high schools with all students who take these courses and take the End of Course examination. So, my question is...why does it say they have to retake the course the next school year? Maybe Im reading this completely wrong. At first I thought it was talking about retaking it if they failed, but thats not what it says. Whats the point of them taking them in the 8th grade if theyre still going to have to take them again in the 9th grade?
Posted on: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 19:40:02 +0000
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