Editorial: Carlmont needs to standardize difficulty between classes

Editorial: Carlmont needs to standardize difficulty between classes

Every August, when Carlmont students finally get their new schedules, the anxiety that follows rarely stems from the subjects themselves — they selected their courses months ago. Instead, it comes from the names printed next to those subjects. In our current system, a student’s grade and academic workload often come down to the luck of the draw. While diversity is natural in education, drastic disparities in course difficulty across the same sub…