You can't do that anymore...but the school district here breaks the classes into teams that tend to follow GPAs w/ just a little crossover. But I really wish they'd just go back to having accelerated, normal, and remedial. There's really no shame in being in a remedial class -- if you don't know the material, you don't know it, so get some help and maybe you'll get it. It gives schools the flexibility to put kids where they need to be: I've seen students who could be in accelerated math but need extra help with language arts and vice versa; I've tutored students who weren't stupid, but they just hadn't "gotten" some important concepts and needed some extra help; and then there are those who just aren't going to be in advanced classes, but that doesn't mean you leave them hanging by teaching them nothing -- well, put them all where they need to be. Everybody comes out winning (or the majority do).