The Principal's response indicates that 49% of the students' GPAs would decline under a true 4.0 scale. That's because those students' grades are being inflated--some massively--by the currently employed system. What she doesn't state is the 51% would benefit from the change. It seems that HHS would rather overstate the grades of its worst students and help them get into colleges they cannot succeed at than give its best students the grades they deserve that would enable them to get into the best colleges they would then be qualified for.
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Lori McCarthy
10 years ago
Thank you for caring enough to do something!
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Patrick Kelly
10 years ago
Alumni
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Nolan Palma
10 years ago
I'm from Hull lol my cousins Chris Ward signed it so I might as well help out
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Mary Kelley
10 years ago
I think that GPAs should be calculated using the same formula across all schools.
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Tim Moriarty
10 years ago
Do it
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tracy Hussey
10 years ago
It is unjust to deny deserving students the merit rewards they have worked so hard to achieve.
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Erin Power
10 years ago
Consistency and equity in grading helps everyone.
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Joey Rochte
10 years ago
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Justin boscoe
10 years ago
My cousin and many like her would benefit from this. Please incorporate into your facility.
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Susan NIcholson
10 years ago
Thank you for this, my daughter has been concerned about this as she was in another school system prior to Hingham.
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Peter Van Buskirk
10 years ago
Thanks for doing this. I am very concerned.
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Bill Binton
10 years ago
The administration of HHS has told me, time after time, that "colleges know Hingham." This is, plain and simple, not true, and an arrogant response against someone who is concerned about their GPA. Are you honestly going to tell me that Harvard University has a little tab on Hingham High School so all their recruiters know that we have an asinine scaling system? There are roughly 37,000 high schools in America. The administration of HHS has NO clue what it's talking about when they say that all colleges in the United States, meaning all recruiters, know exactly what a 1/37000 public school is about. I have spoken to one of my friends who was actually a recruiter for an Ivy League school. When I asked about Hingham, he didn't even know what state we were in. The top colleges in the United States recruit new students by grabbing the top athletes, musicians, and scholars from COUNTIES. Will they see a difference between a kid with a 4.0 in HHS (almost impossible) versus a kid from Duxbury with a 4.0 (actually doable and realistic)? Who cares if we're a blue ribbon school? Not the recruiters. Hingham is purposefully hurting its students with its broken and pretender grading scale that needs to be shut down. Hingham High School has always been stupid with its grading systems (used to be based around a 6.0 scale) and should just switch to the standard and stop acting like Hingham is a special school and is known beyond the rest of the 36,999 High Schools in the United States that want their students to come to schools in Massachusetts like Harvard and MIT.
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Sarah Randall
10 years ago
So happy that people are realizing this. When I was trying to apply for entrance and major bursaries from McGill University, I was told that I needed to have a 4.0 GPA or above to qualify. We don't have much money to pay for college anyway, which is why I pursued an education in Canada. You can bet that I was absolutely pissed when I found out that I should've been listed as having more than a 4.0. Well, actually I don't know what my real GPA is because I don't even know how the Hingham system works! I'm fairly certain that my GPA would've been higher, but I'll still support this petition if that's not the case because none of this is advertised to the students or the colleges.
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Andrew Murray-Brown
10 years ago
I am not sure what is more concerning. 1. That this situation exists in the first place. 2. That administrators didn't know about it or understand its implications, or 3. Once informed, do nothing about it. - We owe it to our kids and to Hingham's standing in comparison to its high school peer group to do something about it.
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Matthe Porter
10 years ago
Agreed. HHS should use the same standard that other area schools use. No reason for Hingham to be an outlier.
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meghan roberts
10 years ago
This is something I've wanted to talk to people about since my freshman year! The GPA system at HHS only helps some students, and harms any taking below level 2 courses - in a level 4 English for example, the highest possible GPA one can obtain is a 3.0!
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Chris ward
10 years ago
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Myself and a lot of my friends have struggled because of the scaling system. We can not raise our gpa without taking all advanced classes. Our appearance to colleges is being diminished because we do not have mathmetical minds and can not handle the work of advanced or ap math or science. This scaling system must be changed
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Fatima Kassam
10 years ago
As a hiring manager in the UN, I often sought clarity regarding academic evaluation of young candidates, as a GPA -- like any composite score -- can mask important detail like a student's personal choice to take more challenging courses, and their ability to succeed in them. Having the information behind the score up front would allow for more transparent and accurate comparison across people and institutions.
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Anonymous
10 years ago
It would be great if HHS actually wanted every student to succeed instead of just glorifying the select few
The Principal's response indicates that 49% of the students' GPAs would decline under a true 4.0 scale. That's because those students' grades are being inflated--some massively--by the currently employed system. What she doesn't state is the 51% would benefit from the change. It seems that HHS would rather overstate the grades of its worst students and help them get into colleges they cannot succeed at than give its best students the grades they deserve that would enable them to get into the best colleges they would then be qualified for.
Thank you for caring enough to do something!
Alumni
I'm from Hull lol my cousins Chris Ward signed it so I might as well help out
I think that GPAs should be calculated using the same formula across all schools.
Do it
It is unjust to deny deserving students the merit rewards they have worked so hard to achieve.
Consistency and equity in grading helps everyone.
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My cousin and many like her would benefit from this. Please incorporate into your facility.
Thank you for this, my daughter has been concerned about this as she was in another school system prior to Hingham.
Thanks for doing this. I am very concerned.
The administration of HHS has told me, time after time, that "colleges know Hingham." This is, plain and simple, not true, and an arrogant response against someone who is concerned about their GPA. Are you honestly going to tell me that Harvard University has a little tab on Hingham High School so all their recruiters know that we have an asinine scaling system? There are roughly 37,000 high schools in America. The administration of HHS has NO clue what it's talking about when they say that all colleges in the United States, meaning all recruiters, know exactly what a 1/37000 public school is about. I have spoken to one of my friends who was actually a recruiter for an Ivy League school. When I asked about Hingham, he didn't even know what state we were in. The top colleges in the United States recruit new students by grabbing the top athletes, musicians, and scholars from COUNTIES. Will they see a difference between a kid with a 4.0 in HHS (almost impossible) versus a kid from Duxbury with a 4.0 (actually doable and realistic)? Who cares if we're a blue ribbon school? Not the recruiters. Hingham is purposefully hurting its students with its broken and pretender grading scale that needs to be shut down. Hingham High School has always been stupid with its grading systems (used to be based around a 6.0 scale) and should just switch to the standard and stop acting like Hingham is a special school and is known beyond the rest of the 36,999 High Schools in the United States that want their students to come to schools in Massachusetts like Harvard and MIT.
So happy that people are realizing this. When I was trying to apply for entrance and major bursaries from McGill University, I was told that I needed to have a 4.0 GPA or above to qualify. We don't have much money to pay for college anyway, which is why I pursued an education in Canada. You can bet that I was absolutely pissed when I found out that I should've been listed as having more than a 4.0. Well, actually I don't know what my real GPA is because I don't even know how the Hingham system works! I'm fairly certain that my GPA would've been higher, but I'll still support this petition if that's not the case because none of this is advertised to the students or the colleges.
I am not sure what is more concerning. 1. That this situation exists in the first place. 2. That administrators didn't know about it or understand its implications, or 3. Once informed, do nothing about it. - We owe it to our kids and to Hingham's standing in comparison to its high school peer group to do something about it.
Agreed. HHS should use the same standard that other area schools use. No reason for Hingham to be an outlier.
This is something I've wanted to talk to people about since my freshman year! The GPA system at HHS only helps some students, and harms any taking below level 2 courses - in a level 4 English for example, the highest possible GPA one can obtain is a 3.0!
Myself and a lot of my friends have struggled because of the scaling system. We can not raise our gpa without taking all advanced classes. Our appearance to colleges is being diminished because we do not have mathmetical minds and can not handle the work of advanced or ap math or science. This scaling system must be changed
As a hiring manager in the UN, I often sought clarity regarding academic evaluation of young candidates, as a GPA -- like any composite score -- can mask important detail like a student's personal choice to take more challenging courses, and their ability to succeed in them. Having the information behind the score up front would allow for more transparent and accurate comparison across people and institutions.
It would be great if HHS actually wanted every student to succeed instead of just glorifying the select few