The Board of Education has recently approved that AP classes are now going to weigh more than honors classes.
On January 31, 2013 student council proposed a resolution  that advanced placement classes should weigh more than honors classes. All college prep and core classes have a weight of 1.0, but honors and AP classes weigh 1.1.  Your final grade in your AP and honors classes are multiplied by the weighting of classes, which is what determines a students QPA. QPA’s are sent to colleges and determine a students class rank. A group of senators wrote a resolution bill to try and make the AP classes weigh more.
Unfortunately, this idea was immediately shot down due to it being such a long process to undergo. Because of the amount of time this process would consume the seriousness of it was never taken into consideration. On September of 2014 however, it finally was. Chris Tomlin, WRSC advisor,  brought the idea back up to his current members. The students decided to act on it again, so they proposed it to Principal Kurt Ogren.
It was the first time Ogren heard of the idea because he was not here two years ago to be a part of the first proposal. Ogren agreed that AP students do a lot more work than honors students, therefore the change needs to be made.
The first step was to collect a series of data to show how much change it would make to students. Then it was brought to the Department Heads and it was agreed on by consensus that it was a good idea. From there the idea went to the Curriculum Council which agreed on the idea as well.
Ogren spoke at a Board of Education meeting to try to get this idea approved through them so the change can finally be made.

“I put forth the proposal and told them why it was a good idea,” Ogren stated.

The Board then put the proposal on their agenda and voted on it.
The final result of the process is that the freshman class will be the only current Woodland students to be affected by this change, along with upcoming students throughout the years. Starting next year AP classes will hold a weight of 1.15. The other current Woodland students will not be affected.

“To be fair you can’t change the rules in the middle of the game,” Ogren stated.
Katie Drewery said “If you are the type of student to take more than one AP class then this change is really going to affect your GPA, this is going to encourage students to take more AP classes.”
Down the road Ogren wants to work on collaboration with Nagutack Valley as well as the University of Connecticut. This will help students get credit for being able to take a college course; as well as being prepared for what the future holds.