Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Depends on which school. Some schools have a lot of grade inflation.
Very true. The retake thing cracks me up too. What's good is a test if you can just take another one if you do poorly?
Our principal is tough on grade inflation (reminds regularly that C is average) and I hear our parochial school "grades harder" than others. That said, we are still in an affluent area where kids come from highly educated families and have a lot of academic support at home so there are lots on honor roll even with the higher scale that ADW schools use.
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So you can learn from your mistakes and better learn the material being taught? Isn't that the point of school, especially in elementary school?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Depends on which school. Some schools have a lot of grade inflation.
Very true. The retake thing cracks me up too. What's good is a test if you can just take another one if you do poorly?
Our principal is tough on grade inflation (reminds regularly that C is average) and I hear our parochial school "grades harder" than others. That said, we are still in an affluent area where kids come from highly educated families and have a lot of academic support at home so there are lots on honor roll even with the higher scale that ADW schools use.
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Anonymous wrote:Depends on which school. Some schools have a lot of grade inflation.
Anonymous wrote:Wow - no retesting at our school and the cut off for an A is 93%. If it was 90% DC would have had only 2 B's. Our school doesn't have honor roll in 4th. It starts in 5th and 75% of the kids make it with 20% of the class being high honors. It so frustrating because I work so hard with DC. We are sending her to academic camp this summer so that she can get a headstart next year.