Is St. Albans Grading Fair? I Heard NCS Isn't.

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Anonymous wrote:I heard that NCS grading is brutal. Is St. Albans grading fair for the boys? Are there teachers at STA that refuse to give A's or only give one A for the entire English/history department?

My STA kids all got As in their NCS English classes. Not sure what the fuss is about.

If you look online at the long list of English courses offered at NCS, I think you could admit that perhaps your son did not take the class/es that are being referenced by those above?

Your son must be in in 11 or 12 grade because that's when taking English classes at the other school becomes allowed. Grading by that point gets less brutal (or perhaps students become better writers). But in 9-10th grades, no matter how hard you try, hardly anyone will get above 90 for anything. For science / math, only very few select have As.

Grading is brutal. And yes, some colleges know the low grading scale but many don't, and with the test optional trend the grading is hurting college admissions. And often you need to show GPA not only for college admissions but for other competitive applications. I have one graduate and one current Upper School student, so speaking from experience.

How does NCS deal with this parent?! Soooo difficult.

I have news for you - STA students also had difficult grading in 9th and 10th grade! Guess how I know? Because my straight A student couldn’t get better than a C or B in English in ninth grade at STA. It was brutal and ruined his GPA! This is how life goes!

At a certain point, parents have to ask whether it is worth it. I'd much rather have my DS attend Gonzaga and graduate with a 4.4 GPA than attend STA and graduate with a 3.4 because of massive deflation.

Colleges don't give prep school kids a break on GPA anymore, and they don't care that your fancy school deflates grades. Schools tout their matriculation, but fail to disclose that the majority of the Top 20 admits are legacies, athletes, URMs, or Questbridge applicants. In a test-optional world, the deflation the Cathedral Schools do only hurts the kids.

Cathedral school and Sidwell kids did quite well last year in college admissions.

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Mostly the top who are also legacies or athletic recruits. Those who weren’t didn’t do as well.

Most of the c/o 2023 grads at Walls who are attending Ivy+ colleges are legacies and URM (sometimes both). What is your point?

Walls is free?

True, and Walls’ facilities (or lack thereof) and limited resources make it very clear that students are receiving a free education.

The point is that many/most students, coming from public or private schools, aren’t getting into Ivy+ colleges without great grades, test scores AND a hook. So if your child is a talented Ivy legacy with great stats, their high school makes less of a difference than it used to (but elite privates still have an edge). It’s just a matter of how they’ll spend their 4 years of high school before arriving at their Ivy. Will it be economy class on Spirit Airlines (free, but relatively under resourced public schools), or first class on Emirates (elite private schools). If you can afford it, why not have your child travel comfortably and safely to their destination?

Have had kids at both schools. They BOTH had amazing teachers and chose the right HS that set them up to succeed in college. NCS does have intentionally tough grading b/c they have to - no weighted grades for AP so they need a way to differentiate between the students. My understanding is STA doesn’t do +/- grades. So it’s a bit disheartening to take a class and get an A- on the transcript if you are a girl and an A if you are a boy. IMHO NCS should adopt the same grading system as STA. FWIW my NCS DD knew which english teachers were the hardest graders and still took their courses. She was very happy she did even though it meant risking getting an A- instead of an A. Walls DC did the same. The tough grading teachers are usually the best. Both DCs became better writers b/c they had really great english teachers who set a very high bar for them.

Both NCS and STA put numerical grades on report cards.

Transcripts for both schools only include letter grades.

I know that NCS only puts down letter grades.
Does STA put the cumulative GPA on the transcript?

NCS used to enter only letter grades, but that changed a handful of years ago. Now a numerical grade appears on the report card.

Number grades on report cards. Transcript only shows letter grade and GPA.

That’s good. Wish Sidwell did the same instead of showing minus grades on transcripts.

Hih? Of course they show minus grades of the grades are minus grades. They just don't show numbers.

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Anonymous wrote:The grading at NCS US can be very tough, my daughter just had a writing assignment where the grade was capped at 90. You could not get a higher grade, period. Also grading is very teacher dependent and some teachers definitely have reputations for being very harsh graders.
Both schools are hard. If you have kids at both, seems like STA comes out ahead in terms of admin and day to day operations.

My daughter is at NCS and I have never heard of this happening. What class and grade? I have a hard time believing this.

in such a small school, i’m not going to out myself or my daughter. i’m not lying and we will be discussing with school. my daughter was not the only student who was told this and so i tend to believe multiple girls on this one. maybe there is a further explanation but on its face it’s crazy.

What do you mean "capped at a 90?" You mean that the highest grade in the class was a 90 on this assignment? If so, that is totally reasonable. I'm a college professor, and especially in a small class you will find on occasion that nobody in the class does a good job on an assignment. That doesn't mean I should hand out an A "just because."

When you say "capped at a 90" people think you are trying to say that the teacher won't give out an A, no matter how good your work is. I highly doubt this is true.

You have no knowledge on which to make your judgment, which makes you a pompous windbag. Yes, the grade is capped at a 90 because the teacher will not give out grades above that… just because.

And you sound delusional. No teacher does this. I'm sorry your snowflake didn't get an A just because you believe she should have.

Your statement that no teacher does this proves my point that you’re an idiot. You’d have to be pretty asinine to make a statement about a school which you very obviously know nothing about. As for my snowflake, I don’t have one at NCS so there goes your stupid theory.

Wait you don’t even have a daughter at NCS and you have been commenting this entire thread on the grading and whatnot?! Point proven!

There you go again. Showing your idiocy. STA parents have a front row seat to what goes on at NCS. Siblings. Duh.

NP but confused. Up until your last couple “gotcha, you idiot” posts, all your posts (or ones you seemed to be responding to *as if* you wrote them) say “my daughter”. (“my daughter just had a writing assignment where the grade was capped at 90” and “my daughter was not the only student who was told this and so i tend to believe multiple girls on this one”). So either you are the poster with the daughter whose teacher supposedly caps at 90 or you are a parent who doesn’t have a child at NCS (but does have a “sibling” of…some other girl?…at STA?) but who claims to know exactly what teacher is being discussed and can assure us that said teacher does in fact cap at 90 on a whim. Which is it?

I’m the 90 cap on the assignment poster and I’m not the person you’re addressing here. This is my fifth post on this thread. You all must realize there are more than two or three people posting here. My daughter definitely goes to NCS, can’t speak to the other poster’s children!

Yeah it took me a while but there is the parent above who is not the troll, but there is also a troll with no child at NCS who responds to posts calling people idiots and pompous windbags.

Eh. Posting that something categorically does not happen when you don’t have a child at the school deserves being called a pompous windbag. There is a poster who doesn’t have a child there who keeps insisting NCS can’t possibly have teachers who cap grades at 90. Anyone who has a child at NCS Upper School knows differently.

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Anonymous wrote:The grading at NCS US can be very tough, my daughter just had a writing assignment where the grade was capped at 90. You could not get a higher grade, period. Also grading is very teacher dependent and some teachers definitely have reputations for being very harsh graders.
Both schools are hard. If you have kids at both, seems like STA comes out ahead in terms of admin and day to day operations.

My daughter is at NCS and I have never heard of this happening. What class and grade? I have a hard time believing this.

in such a small school, i’m not going to out myself or my daughter. i’m not lying and we will be discussing with school. my daughter was not the only student who was told this and so i tend to believe multiple girls on this one. maybe there is a further explanation but on its face it’s crazy.

What do you mean "capped at a 90?" You mean that the highest grade in the class was a 90 on this assignment? If so, that is totally reasonable. I'm a college professor, and especially in a small class you will find on occasion that nobody in the class does a good job on an assignment. That doesn't mean I should hand out an A "just because."

When you say "capped at a 90" people think you are trying to say that the teacher won't give out an A, no matter how good your work is. I highly doubt this is true.

You have no knowledge on which to make your judgment, which makes you a pompous windbag. Yes, the grade is capped at a 90 because the teacher will not give out grades above that… just because.

And you sound delusional. No teacher does this. I'm sorry your snowflake didn't get an A just because you believe she should have.

Your statement that no teacher does this proves my point that you’re an idiot. You’d have to be pretty asinine to make a statement about a school which you very obviously know nothing about. As for my snowflake, I don’t have one at NCS so there goes your stupid theory.

Wait you don’t even have a daughter at NCS and you have been commenting this entire thread on the grading and whatnot?! Point proven!

There you go again. Showing your idiocy. STA parents have a front row seat to what goes on at NCS. Siblings. Duh.

NP but confused. Up until your last couple “gotcha, you idiot” posts, all your posts (or ones you seemed to be responding to *as if* you wrote them) say “my daughter”. (“my daughter just had a writing assignment where the grade was capped at 90” and “my daughter was not the only student who was told this and so i tend to believe multiple girls on this one”). So either you are the poster with the daughter whose teacher supposedly caps at 90 or you are a parent who doesn’t have a child at NCS (but does have a “sibling” of…some other girl?…at STA?) but who claims to know exactly what teacher is being discussed and can assure us that said teacher does in fact cap at 90 on a whim. Which is it?

I’m the 90 cap on the assignment poster and I’m not the person you’re addressing here. This is my fifth post on this thread. You all must realize there are more than two or three people posting here. My daughter definitely goes to NCS, can’t speak to the other poster’s children!

Yeah it took me a while but there is the parent above who is not the troll, but there is also a troll with no child at NCS who responds to posts calling people idiots and pompous windbags.

Eh. Posting that something categorically does not happen when you don’t have a child at the school deserves being called a pompous windbag. There is a poster who doesn’t have a child there who keeps insisting NCS can’t possibly have teachers who cap grades at 90. Anyone who has a child at NCS Upper School knows differently.

Actually if you read the posts people with kids at NCS have said they have not encountered this.

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Anonymous wrote:The grading at NCS US can be very tough, my daughter just had a writing assignment where the grade was capped at 90. You could not get a higher grade, period. Also grading is very teacher dependent and some teachers definitely have reputations for being very harsh graders.
Both schools are hard. If you have kids at both, seems like STA comes out ahead in terms of admin and day to day operations.

My daughter is at NCS and I have never heard of this happening. What class and grade? I have a hard time believing this.

in such a small school, i’m not going to out myself or my daughter. i’m not lying and we will be discussing with school. my daughter was not the only student who was told this and so i tend to believe multiple girls on this one. maybe there is a further explanation but on its face it’s crazy.

What do you mean "capped at a 90?" You mean that the highest grade in the class was a 90 on this assignment? If so, that is totally reasonable. I'm a college professor, and especially in a small class you will find on occasion that nobody in the class does a good job on an assignment. That doesn't mean I should hand out an A "just because."

When you say "capped at a 90" people think you are trying to say that the teacher won't give out an A, no matter how good your work is. I highly doubt this is true.

You have no knowledge on which to make your judgment, which makes you a pompous windbag. Yes, the grade is capped at a 90 because the teacher will not give out grades above that… just because.

And you sound delusional. No teacher does this. I'm sorry your snowflake didn't get an A just because you believe she should have.

Your statement that no teacher does this proves my point that you’re an idiot. You’d have to be pretty asinine to make a statement about a school which you very obviously know nothing about. As for my snowflake, I don’t have one at NCS so there goes your stupid theory.

Wait you don’t even have a daughter at NCS and you have been commenting this entire thread on the grading and whatnot?! Point proven!

There you go again. Showing your idiocy. STA parents have a front row seat to what goes on at NCS. Siblings. Duh.

NP but confused. Up until your last couple “gotcha, you idiot” posts, all your posts (or ones you seemed to be responding to *as if* you wrote them) say “my daughter”. (“my daughter just had a writing assignment where the grade was capped at 90” and “my daughter was not the only student who was told this and so i tend to believe multiple girls on this one”). So either you are the poster with the daughter whose teacher supposedly caps at 90 or you are a parent who doesn’t have a child at NCS (but does have a “sibling” of…some other girl?…at STA?) but who claims to know exactly what teacher is being discussed and can assure us that said teacher does in fact cap at 90 on a whim. Which is it?

I’m the 90 cap on the assignment poster and I’m not the person you’re addressing here. This is my fifth post on this thread. You all must realize there are more than two or three people posting here. My daughter definitely goes to NCS, can’t speak to the other poster’s children!

Yeah it took me a while but there is the parent above who is not the troll, but there is also a troll with no child at NCS who responds to posts calling people idiots and pompous windbags.

Eh. Posting that something categorically does not happen when you don’t have a child at the school deserves being called a pompous windbag. There is a poster who doesn’t have a child there who keeps insisting NCS can’t possibly have teachers who cap grades at 90. Anyone who has a child at NCS Upper School knows differently.

Actually if you read the posts people with kids at NCS have said they have not encountered this.

Probably not US parents.

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Anonymous wrote:NCS parent here. I have heard of teachers capping grades at an 86/100 for close reading assignments early on in the year and capping daily class discussion grades at 4.5/5 (unless the student made a "graduate-level" comment in which case a 4.7/5 was given on that day). I think teachers want to make sure there is room for growth. In my DD's experience, it all worked out, but she had to keep grinding all year and it definitely increased her stress. Tough grading notwithstanding, the English department at NCS is fantastic and did an incredible job of preparing my DD for college. The teachers also were readily available during office hours.

The original poster with the daughter with the 90 cap here. Thank you for posting this, makes me feel less crazy. I think it would be helpful if the teacher had communicated the policy and the reasoning for it to the class.

As for people asking why post negative things about NCS or other schools, I post positive things 98% of the time. I don’t know how you would know it’s one person posting negative things, but we are quite happy w NCS. Both can be true. You can like a school and still find fault with it or think things could improve. We aren’t new to the school and are aware it’s a rigorous place but this was not something my daughter has experienced before.

Sad that people who no longer have children at the school and the NCS cheer section are commenting and making you feel delusional.

STA US also has teachers notorious for capping grades. Admin has years of complaints but will do nothing.The English teacher who caps grades couldn’t care less about teaching. She didn’t grade any of my son’s papers until the end of the semester. No feedback to get better or even figure out what she wanted.

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Anonymous wrote:The grading at NCS US can be very tough, my daughter just had a writing assignment where the grade was capped at 90. You could not get a higher grade, period. Also grading is very teacher dependent and some teachers definitely have reputations for being very harsh graders.
Both schools are hard. If you have kids at both, seems like STA comes out ahead in terms of admin and day to day operations.

My daughter is at NCS and I have never heard of this happening. What class and grade? I have a hard time believing this.

in such a small school, i’m not going to out myself or my daughter. i’m not lying and we will be discussing with school. my daughter was not the only student who was told this and so i tend to believe multiple girls on this one. maybe there is a further explanation but on its face it’s crazy.

What do you mean "capped at a 90?" You mean that the highest grade in the class was a 90 on this assignment? If so, that is totally reasonable. I'm a college professor, and especially in a small class you will find on occasion that nobody in the class does a good job on an assignment. That doesn't mean I should hand out an A "just because."

When you say "capped at a 90" people think you are trying to say that the teacher won't give out an A, no matter how good your work is. I highly doubt this is true.

You have no knowledge on which to make your judgment, which makes you a pompous windbag. Yes, the grade is capped at a 90 because the teacher will not give out grades above that… just because.

And you sound delusional. No teacher does this. I'm sorry your snowflake didn't get an A just because you believe she should have.

Your statement that no teacher does this proves my point that you’re an idiot. You’d have to be pretty asinine to make a statement about a school which you very obviously know nothing about. As for my snowflake, I don’t have one at NCS so there goes your stupid theory.

Wait you don’t even have a daughter at NCS and you have been commenting this entire thread on the grading and whatnot?! Point proven!

There you go again. Showing your idiocy. STA parents have a front row seat to what goes on at NCS. Siblings. Duh.

NP but confused. Up until your last couple “gotcha, you idiot” posts, all your posts (or ones you seemed to be responding to *as if* you wrote them) say “my daughter”. (“my daughter just had a writing assignment where the grade was capped at 90” and “my daughter was not the only student who was told this and so i tend to believe multiple girls on this one”). So either you are the poster with the daughter whose teacher supposedly caps at 90 or you are a parent who doesn’t have a child at NCS (but does have a “sibling” of…some other girl?…at STA?) but who claims to know exactly what teacher is being discussed and can assure us that said teacher does in fact cap at 90 on a whim. Which is it?

I’m the 90 cap on the assignment poster and I’m not the person you’re addressing here. This is my fifth post on this thread. You all must realize there are more than two or three people posting here. My daughter definitely goes to NCS, can’t speak to the other poster’s children!

Yeah it took me a while but there is the parent above who is not the troll, but there is also a troll with no child at NCS who responds to posts calling people idiots and pompous windbags.

Eh. Posting that something categorically does not happen when you don’t have a child at the school deserves being called a pompous windbag. There is a poster who doesn’t have a child there who keeps insisting NCS can’t possibly have teachers who cap grades at 90. Anyone who has a child at NCS Upper School knows differently.

Different poster and it's going on right now. My daughter just received an 88% on a paper that would have received an A in my college upper level English class. She actually sent it to my sibling who teaches at a top 10 university for his thoughts and he said the same. The top grade on this assignment by anyone in the class was a 90%. It is what it is and she's gotten used to it but it's the reality.

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Anonymous wrote:The grading at NCS US can be very tough, my daughter just had a writing assignment where the grade was capped at 90. You could not get a higher grade, period. Also grading is very teacher dependent and some teachers definitely have reputations for being very harsh graders.
Both schools are hard. If you have kids at both, seems like STA comes out ahead in terms of admin and day to day operations.

My daughter is at NCS and I have never heard of this happening. What class and grade? I have a hard time believing this.

in such a small school, i’m not going to out myself or my daughter. i’m not lying and we will be discussing with school. my daughter was not the only student who was told this and so i tend to believe multiple girls on this one. maybe there is a further explanation but on its face it’s crazy.

What do you mean "capped at a 90?" You mean that the highest grade in the class was a 90 on this assignment? If so, that is totally reasonable. I'm a college professor, and especially in a small class you will find on occasion that nobody in the class does a good job on an assignment. That doesn't mean I should hand out an A "just because."

When you say "capped at a 90" people think you are trying to say that the teacher won't give out an A, no matter how good your work is. I highly doubt this is true.

You have no knowledge on which to make your judgment, which makes you a pompous windbag. Yes, the grade is capped at a 90 because the teacher will not give out grades above that… just because.

And you sound delusional. No teacher does this. I'm sorry your snowflake didn't get an A just because you believe she should have.

Your statement that no teacher does this proves my point that you’re an idiot. You’d have to be pretty asinine to make a statement about a school which you very obviously know nothing about. As for my snowflake, I don’t have one at NCS so there goes your stupid theory.

Wait you don’t even have a daughter at NCS and you have been commenting this entire thread on the grading and whatnot?! Point proven!

There you go again. Showing your idiocy. STA parents have a front row seat to what goes on at NCS. Siblings. Duh.

NP but confused. Up until your last couple “gotcha, you idiot” posts, all your posts (or ones you seemed to be responding to *as if* you wrote them) say “my daughter”. (“my daughter just had a writing assignment where the grade was capped at 90” and “my daughter was not the only student who was told this and so i tend to believe multiple girls on this one”). So either you are the poster with the daughter whose teacher supposedly caps at 90 or you are a parent who doesn’t have a child at NCS (but does have a “sibling” of…some other girl?…at STA?) but who claims to know exactly what teacher is being discussed and can assure us that said teacher does in fact cap at 90 on a whim. Which is it?

I’m the 90 cap on the assignment poster and I’m not the person you’re addressing here. This is my fifth post on this thread. You all must realize there are more than two or three people posting here. My daughter definitely goes to NCS, can’t speak to the other poster’s children!

Yeah it took me a while but there is the parent above who is not the troll, but there is also a troll with no child at NCS who responds to posts calling people idiots and pompous windbags.

Eh. Posting that something categorically does not happen when you don’t have a child at the school deserves being called a pompous windbag. There is a poster who doesn’t have a child there who keeps insisting NCS can’t possibly have teachers who cap grades at 90. Anyone who has a child at NCS Upper School knows differently.

Different poster and it's going on right now. My daughter just received an 88% on a paper that would have received an A in my college upper level English class. She actually sent it to my sibling who teaches at a top 10 university for his thoughts and he said the same. The top grade on this assignment by anyone in the class was a 90%. It is what it is and she's gotten used to it but it's the reality.

English and history grading is subjective and you should know that. I can’t tell you how many papers I wrote that I thought should have been an A but they were not. This is part of life. Life is not fair. Did someone tell you that it was? It’s not.

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Anonymous wrote:The grading at NCS US can be very tough, my daughter just had a writing assignment where the grade was capped at 90. You could not get a higher grade, period. Also grading is very teacher dependent and some teachers definitely have reputations for being very harsh graders.
Both schools are hard. If you have kids at both, seems like STA comes out ahead in terms of admin and day to day operations.

My daughter is at NCS and I have never heard of this happening. What class and grade? I have a hard time believing this.

in such a small school, i’m not going to out myself or my daughter. i’m not lying and we will be discussing with school. my daughter was not the only student who was told this and so i tend to believe multiple girls on this one. maybe there is a further explanation but on its face it’s crazy.

What do you mean "capped at a 90?" You mean that the highest grade in the class was a 90 on this assignment? If so, that is totally reasonable. I'm a college professor, and especially in a small class you will find on occasion that nobody in the class does a good job on an assignment. That doesn't mean I should hand out an A "just because."

When you say "capped at a 90" people think you are trying to say that the teacher won't give out an A, no matter how good your work is. I highly doubt this is true.

You have no knowledge on which to make your judgment, which makes you a pompous windbag. Yes, the grade is capped at a 90 because the teacher will not give out grades above that… just because.

And you sound delusional. No teacher does this. I'm sorry your snowflake didn't get an A just because you believe she should have.

Your statement that no teacher does this proves my point that you’re an idiot. You’d have to be pretty asinine to make a statement about a school which you very obviously know nothing about. As for my snowflake, I don’t have one at NCS so there goes your stupid theory.

Wait you don’t even have a daughter at NCS and you have been commenting this entire thread on the grading and whatnot?! Point proven!

There you go again. Showing your idiocy. STA parents have a front row seat to what goes on at NCS. Siblings. Duh.

NP but confused. Up until your last couple “gotcha, you idiot” posts, all your posts (or ones you seemed to be responding to *as if* you wrote them) say “my daughter”. (“my daughter just had a writing assignment where the grade was capped at 90” and “my daughter was not the only student who was told this and so i tend to believe multiple girls on this one”). So either you are the poster with the daughter whose teacher supposedly caps at 90 or you are a parent who doesn’t have a child at NCS (but does have a “sibling” of…some other girl?…at STA?) but who claims to know exactly what teacher is being discussed and can assure us that said teacher does in fact cap at 90 on a whim. Which is it?

I’m the 90 cap on the assignment poster and I’m not the person you’re addressing here. This is my fifth post on this thread. You all must realize there are more than two or three people posting here. My daughter definitely goes to NCS, can’t speak to the other poster’s children!

Yeah it took me a while but there is the parent above who is not the troll, but there is also a troll with no child at NCS who responds to posts calling people idiots and pompous windbags.

Eh. Posting that something categorically does not happen when you don’t have a child at the school deserves being called a pompous windbag. There is a poster who doesn’t have a child there who keeps insisting NCS can’t possibly have teachers who cap grades at 90. Anyone who has a child at NCS Upper School knows differently.

Different poster and it's going on right now. My daughter just received an 88% on a paper that would have received an A in my college upper level English class. She actually sent it to my sibling who teaches at a top 10 university for his thoughts and he said the same. The top grade on this assignment by anyone in the class was a 90%. It is what it is and she's gotten used to it but it's the reality.

We have all experienced teachers or coaches that we believed treated us or our children unfairly. It happens. I think people don’t believe it because many of us have kids there and have asked our daughters and they said they had not experienced this. Others have asked their daughters after reading this and their daughters also said no.

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Anonymous wrote:The grading at NCS US can be very tough, my daughter just had a writing assignment where the grade was capped at 90. You could not get a higher grade, period. Also grading is very teacher dependent and some teachers definitely have reputations for being very harsh graders.
Both schools are hard. If you have kids at both, seems like STA comes out ahead in terms of admin and day to day operations.

My daughter is at NCS and I have never heard of this happening. What class and grade? I have a hard time believing this.

in such a small school, i’m not going to out myself or my daughter. i’m not lying and we will be discussing with school. my daughter was not the only student who was told this and so i tend to believe multiple girls on this one. maybe there is a further explanation but on its face it’s crazy.

What do you mean "capped at a 90?" You mean that the highest grade in the class was a 90 on this assignment? If so, that is totally reasonable. I'm a college professor, and especially in a small class you will find on occasion that nobody in the class does a good job on an assignment. That doesn't mean I should hand out an A "just because."

When you say "capped at a 90" people think you are trying to say that the teacher won't give out an A, no matter how good your work is. I highly doubt this is true.

You have no knowledge on which to make your judgment, which makes you a pompous windbag. Yes, the grade is capped at a 90 because the teacher will not give out grades above that… just because.

And you sound delusional. No teacher does this. I'm sorry your snowflake didn't get an A just because you believe she should have.

Your statement that no teacher does this proves my point that you’re an idiot. You’d have to be pretty asinine to make a statement about a school which you very obviously know nothing about. As for my snowflake, I don’t have one at NCS so there goes your stupid theory.

Wait you don’t even have a daughter at NCS and you have been commenting this entire thread on the grading and whatnot?! Point proven!

There you go again. Showing your idiocy. STA parents have a front row seat to what goes on at NCS. Siblings. Duh.

NP but confused. Up until your last couple “gotcha, you idiot” posts, all your posts (or ones you seemed to be responding to *as if* you wrote them) say “my daughter”. (“my daughter just had a writing assignment where the grade was capped at 90” and “my daughter was not the only student who was told this and so i tend to believe multiple girls on this one”). So either you are the poster with the daughter whose teacher supposedly caps at 90 or you are a parent who doesn’t have a child at NCS (but does have a “sibling” of…some other girl?…at STA?) but who claims to know exactly what teacher is being discussed and can assure us that said teacher does in fact cap at 90 on a whim. Which is it?

I’m the 90 cap on the assignment poster and I’m not the person you’re addressing here. This is my fifth post on this thread. You all must realize there are more than two or three people posting here. My daughter definitely goes to NCS, can’t speak to the other poster’s children!

Yeah it took me a while but there is the parent above who is not the troll, but there is also a troll with no child at NCS who responds to posts calling people idiots and pompous windbags.

Eh. Posting that something categorically does not happen when you don’t have a child at the school deserves being called a pompous windbag. There is a poster who doesn’t have a child there who keeps insisting NCS can’t possibly have teachers who cap grades at 90. Anyone who has a child at NCS Upper School knows differently.

Different poster and it's going on right now. My daughter just received an 88% on a paper that would have received an A in my college upper level English class. She actually sent it to my sibling who teaches at a top 10 university for his thoughts and he said the same. The top grade on this assignment by anyone in the class was a 90%. It is what it is and she's gotten used to it but it's the reality.

We have all experienced teachers or coaches that we believed treated us or our children unfairly. It happens. I think people don’t believe it because many of us have kids there and have asked our daughters and they said they had not experienced this. Others have asked their daughters after reading this and their daughters also said no.

Your post is a dis on parents who have posted that their daughters experienced grade capping. The question, “Did you experience this?” Is a pretty bad one. Your child may not have experienced it because they did not have that teacher, was never in the range for an A, or needs to believe it hasn’t happened to her because she wants to believe that if she works harder she can get that A next time.

Yes, English and history grading are subjective, but it can occur in other subjects, too, where one teacher of a math section presents much harder tests than the other.

No one is saying life isn’t unfair but when a teacher refuses to give As on principle no matter how good the quality of work and the school allows it, that’s penalizing the students unnecessarily and exacerbating the mental health issues they already face because of the intensity of academics at NCS.

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Both schools are hard. If you have kids at both, seems like STA comes out ahead in terms of admin and day to day operations.

My daughter is at NCS and I have never heard of this happening. What class and grade? I have a hard time believing this.

in such a small school, i’m not going to out myself or my daughter. i’m not lying and we will be discussing with school. my daughter was not the only student who was told this and so i tend to believe multiple girls on this one. maybe there is a further explanation but on its face it’s crazy.

What do you mean "capped at a 90?" You mean that the highest grade in the class was a 90 on this assignment? If so, that is totally reasonable. I'm a college professor, and especially in a small class you will find on occasion that nobody in the class does a good job on an assignment. That doesn't mean I should hand out an A "just because."

When you say "capped at a 90" people think you are trying to say that the teacher won't give out an A, no matter how good your work is. I highly doubt this is true.

You have no knowledge on which to make your judgment, which makes you a pompous windbag. Yes, the grade is capped at a 90 because the teacher will not give out grades above that… just because.

And you sound delusional. No teacher does this. I'm sorry your snowflake didn't get an A just because you believe she should have.

Your statement that no teacher does this proves my point that you’re an idiot. You’d have to be pretty asinine to make a statement about a school which you very obviously know nothing about. As for my snowflake, I don’t have one at NCS so there goes your stupid theory.

Wait you don’t even have a daughter at NCS and you have been commenting this entire thread on the grading and whatnot?! Point proven!

There you go again. Showing your idiocy. STA parents have a front row seat to what goes on at NCS. Siblings. Duh.

NP but confused. Up until your last couple “gotcha, you idiot” posts, all your posts (or ones you seemed to be responding to *as if* you wrote them) say “my daughter”. (“my daughter just had a writing assignment where the grade was capped at 90” and “my daughter was not the only student who was told this and so i tend to believe multiple girls on this one”). So either you are the poster with the daughter whose teacher supposedly caps at 90 or you are a parent who doesn’t have a child at NCS (but does have a “sibling” of…some other girl?…at STA?) but who claims to know exactly what teacher is being discussed and can assure us that said teacher does in fact cap at 90 on a whim. Which is it?

I’m the 90 cap on the assignment poster and I’m not the person you’re addressing here. This is my fifth post on this thread. You all must realize there are more than two or three people posting here. My daughter definitely goes to NCS, can’t speak to the other poster’s children!

Yeah it took me a while but there is the parent above who is not the troll, but there is also a troll with no child at NCS who responds to posts calling people idiots and pompous windbags.

Eh. Posting that something categorically does not happen when you don’t have a child at the school deserves being called a pompous windbag. There is a poster who doesn’t have a child there who keeps insisting NCS can’t possibly have teachers who cap grades at 90. Anyone who has a child at NCS Upper School knows differently.

Different poster and it's going on right now. My daughter just received an 88% on a paper that would have received an A in my college upper level English class. She actually sent it to my sibling who teaches at a top 10 university for his thoughts and he said the same. The top grade on this assignment by anyone in the class was a 90%. It is what it is and she's gotten used to it but it's the reality.

If you really believe your daughter is already capable of senior level work at a competitive university, then there really is no need to send her to an academically rigorous high school. It might be better to go to a school with grade inflation if there is actually no need for her to hone her skills. She'd get better grades and have a less stressful time. Why have her attend such a school if you think the grading is this unfair and does not promote improvement in her skills? Serious question.

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Anonymous wrote:The grading at NCS US can be very tough, my daughter just had a writing assignment where the grade was capped at 90. You could not get a higher grade, period. Also grading is very teacher dependent and some teachers definitely have reputations for being very harsh graders.
Both schools are hard. If you have kids at both, seems like STA comes out ahead in terms of admin and day to day operations.

My daughter is at NCS and I have never heard of this happening. What class and grade? I have a hard time believing this.

in such a small school, i’m not going to out myself or my daughter. i’m not lying and we will be discussing with school. my daughter was not the only student who was told this and so i tend to believe multiple girls on this one. maybe there is a further explanation but on its face it’s crazy.

What do you mean "capped at a 90?" You mean that the highest grade in the class was a 90 on this assignment? If so, that is totally reasonable. I'm a college professor, and especially in a small class you will find on occasion that nobody in the class does a good job on an assignment. That doesn't mean I should hand out an A "just because."

When you say "capped at a 90" people think you are trying to say that the teacher won't give out an A, no matter how good your work is. I highly doubt this is true.

You have no knowledge on which to make your judgment, which makes you a pompous windbag. Yes, the grade is capped at a 90 because the teacher will not give out grades above that… just because.

And you sound delusional. No teacher does this. I'm sorry your snowflake didn't get an A just because you believe she should have.

Your statement that no teacher does this proves my point that you’re an idiot. You’d have to be pretty asinine to make a statement about a school which you very obviously know nothing about. As for my snowflake, I don’t have one at NCS so there goes your stupid theory.

Wait you don’t even have a daughter at NCS and you have been commenting this entire thread on the grading and whatnot?! Point proven!

There you go again. Showing your idiocy. STA parents have a front row seat to what goes on at NCS. Siblings. Duh.

NP but confused. Up until your last couple “gotcha, you idiot” posts, all your posts (or ones you seemed to be responding to *as if* you wrote them) say “my daughter”. (“my daughter just had a writing assignment where the grade was capped at 90” and “my daughter was not the only student who was told this and so i tend to believe multiple girls on this one”). So either you are the poster with the daughter whose teacher supposedly caps at 90 or you are a parent who doesn’t have a child at NCS (but does have a “sibling” of…some other girl?…at STA?) but who claims to know exactly what teacher is being discussed and can assure us that said teacher does in fact cap at 90 on a whim. Which is it?

I’m the 90 cap on the assignment poster and I’m not the person you’re addressing here. This is my fifth post on this thread. You all must realize there are more than two or three people posting here. My daughter definitely goes to NCS, can’t speak to the other poster’s children!

Yeah it took me a while but there is the parent above who is not the troll, but there is also a troll with no child at NCS who responds to posts calling people idiots and pompous windbags.

Eh. Posting that something categorically does not happen when you don’t have a child at the school deserves being called a pompous windbag. There is a poster who doesn’t have a child there who keeps insisting NCS can’t possibly have teachers who cap grades at 90. Anyone who has a child at NCS Upper School knows differently.

Different poster and it's going on right now. My daughter just received an 88% on a paper that would have received an A in my college upper level English class. She actually sent it to my sibling who teaches at a top 10 university for his thoughts and he said the same. The top grade on this assignment by anyone in the class was a 90%. It is what it is and she's gotten used to it but it's the reality.

We have all experienced teachers or coaches that we believed treated us or our children unfairly. It happens. I think people don’t believe it because many of us have kids there and have asked our daughters and they said they had not experienced this. Others have asked their daughters after reading this and their daughters also said no.

Your post is a dis on parents who have posted that their daughters experienced grade capping. The question, “Did you experience this?” Is a pretty bad one. Your child may not have experienced it because they did not have that teacher, was never in the range for an A, or needs to believe it hasn’t happened to her because she wants to believe that if she works harder she can get that A next time.

Yes, English and history grading are subjective, but it can occur in other subjects, too, where one teacher of a math section presents much harder tests than the other.

No one is saying life isn’t unfair but when a teacher refuses to give As on principle no matter how good the quality of work and the school allows it, that’s penalizing the students unnecessarily and exacerbating the mental health issues they already face because of the intensity of academics at NCS.

DP. So it’s math now too?

What actions have you taken since you posted this last week? You express that you think it is completely unfair so what have you done about it besides post on here? Serious question.

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Anonymous wrote:The grading at NCS US can be very tough, my daughter just had a writing assignment where the grade was capped at 90. You could not get a higher grade, period. Also grading is very teacher dependent and some teachers definitely have reputations for being very harsh graders.
Both schools are hard. If you have kids at both, seems like STA comes out ahead in terms of admin and day to day operations.

My daughter is at NCS and I have never heard of this happening. What class and grade? I have a hard time believing this.

in such a small school, i’m not going to out myself or my daughter. i’m not lying and we will be discussing with school. my daughter was not the only student who was told this and so i tend to believe multiple girls on this one. maybe there is a further explanation but on its face it’s crazy.

What do you mean "capped at a 90?" You mean that the highest grade in the class was a 90 on this assignment? If so, that is totally reasonable. I'm a college professor, and especially in a small class you will find on occasion that nobody in the class does a good job on an assignment. That doesn't mean I should hand out an A "just because."

When you say "capped at a 90" people think you are trying to say that the teacher won't give out an A, no matter how good your work is. I highly doubt this is true.

You have no knowledge on which to make your judgment, which makes you a pompous windbag. Yes, the grade is capped at a 90 because the teacher will not give out grades above that… just because.

And you sound delusional. No teacher does this. I'm sorry your snowflake didn't get an A just because you believe she should have.

Your statement that no teacher does this proves my point that you’re an idiot. You’d have to be pretty asinine to make a statement about a school which you very obviously know nothing about. As for my snowflake, I don’t have one at NCS so there goes your stupid theory.

Wait you don’t even have a daughter at NCS and you have been commenting this entire thread on the grading and whatnot?! Point proven!

There you go again. Showing your idiocy. STA parents have a front row seat to what goes on at NCS. Siblings. Duh.

NP but confused. Up until your last couple “gotcha, you idiot” posts, all your posts (or ones you seemed to be responding to *as if* you wrote them) say “my daughter”. (“my daughter just had a writing assignment where the grade was capped at 90” and “my daughter was not the only student who was told this and so i tend to believe multiple girls on this one”). So either you are the poster with the daughter whose teacher supposedly caps at 90 or you are a parent who doesn’t have a child at NCS (but does have a “sibling” of…some other girl?…at STA?) but who claims to know exactly what teacher is being discussed and can assure us that said teacher does in fact cap at 90 on a whim. Which is it?

I’m the 90 cap on the assignment poster and I’m not the person you’re addressing here. This is my fifth post on this thread. You all must realize there are more than two or three people posting here. My daughter definitely goes to NCS, can’t speak to the other poster’s children!

Yeah it took me a while but there is the parent above who is not the troll, but there is also a troll with no child at NCS who responds to posts calling people idiots and pompous windbags.

Eh. Posting that something categorically does not happen when you don’t have a child at the school deserves being called a pompous windbag. There is a poster who doesn’t have a child there who keeps insisting NCS can’t possibly have teachers who cap grades at 90. Anyone who has a child at NCS Upper School knows differently.

Actually if you read the posts people with kids at NCS have said they have not encountered this.

This doesn't happen in every class, but should not happen in any class.

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Anonymous wrote:The grading at NCS US can be very tough, my daughter just had a writing assignment where the grade was capped at 90. You could not get a higher grade, period. Also grading is very teacher dependent and some teachers definitely have reputations for being very harsh graders.
Both schools are hard. If you have kids at both, seems like STA comes out ahead in terms of admin and day to day operations.

My daughter is at NCS and I have never heard of this happening. What class and grade? I have a hard time believing this.

in such a small school, i’m not going to out myself or my daughter. i’m not lying and we will be discussing with school. my daughter was not the only student who was told this and so i tend to believe multiple girls on this one. maybe there is a further explanation but on its face it’s crazy.

What do you mean "capped at a 90?" You mean that the highest grade in the class was a 90 on this assignment? If so, that is totally reasonable. I'm a college professor, and especially in a small class you will find on occasion that nobody in the class does a good job on an assignment. That doesn't mean I should hand out an A "just because."

When you say "capped at a 90" people think you are trying to say that the teacher won't give out an A, no matter how good your work is. I highly doubt this is true.

You have no knowledge on which to make your judgment, which makes you a pompous windbag. Yes, the grade is capped at a 90 because the teacher will not give out grades above that… just because.

And you sound delusional. No teacher does this. I'm sorry your snowflake didn't get an A just because you believe she should have.

Your statement that no teacher does this proves my point that you’re an idiot. You’d have to be pretty asinine to make a statement about a school which you very obviously know nothing about. As for my snowflake, I don’t have one at NCS so there goes your stupid theory.

Wait you don’t even have a daughter at NCS and you have been commenting this entire thread on the grading and whatnot?! Point proven!

There you go again. Showing your idiocy. STA parents have a front row seat to what goes on at NCS. Siblings. Duh.

NP but confused. Up until your last couple “gotcha, you idiot” posts, all your posts (or ones you seemed to be responding to *as if* you wrote them) say “my daughter”. (“my daughter just had a writing assignment where the grade was capped at 90” and “my daughter was not the only student who was told this and so i tend to believe multiple girls on this one”). So either you are the poster with the daughter whose teacher supposedly caps at 90 or you are a parent who doesn’t have a child at NCS (but does have a “sibling” of…some other girl?…at STA?) but who claims to know exactly what teacher is being discussed and can assure us that said teacher does in fact cap at 90 on a whim. Which is it?

I’m the 90 cap on the assignment poster and I’m not the person you’re addressing here. This is my fifth post on this thread. You all must realize there are more than two or three people posting here. My daughter definitely goes to NCS, can’t speak to the other poster’s children!

Yeah it took me a while but there is the parent above who is not the troll, but there is also a troll with no child at NCS who responds to posts calling people idiots and pompous windbags.

Eh. Posting that something categorically does not happen when you don’t have a child at the school deserves being called a pompous windbag. There is a poster who doesn’t have a child there who keeps insisting NCS can’t possibly have teachers who cap grades at 90. Anyone who has a child at NCS Upper School knows differently.

Different poster and it's going on right now. My daughter just received an 88% on a paper that would have received an A in my college upper level English class. She actually sent it to my sibling who teaches at a top 10 university for his thoughts and he said the same. The top grade on this assignment by anyone in the class was a 90%. It is what it is and she's gotten used to it but it's the reality.

We have all experienced teachers or coaches that we believed treated us or our children unfairly. It happens. I think people don’t believe it because many of us have kids there and have asked our daughters and they said they had not experienced this. Others have asked their daughters after reading this and their daughters also said no.

Your post is a dis on parents who have posted that their daughters experienced grade capping. The question, “Did you experience this?” Is a pretty bad one. Your child may not have experienced it because they did not have that teacher, was never in the range for an A, or needs to believe it hasn’t happened to her because she wants to believe that if she works harder she can get that A next time.

Yes, English and history grading are subjective, but it can occur in other subjects, too, where one teacher of a math section presents much harder tests than the other.

No one is saying life isn’t unfair but when a teacher refuses to give As on principle no matter how good the quality of work and the school allows it, that’s penalizing the students unnecessarily and exacerbating the mental health issues they already face because of the intensity of academics at NCS.

DP. I think people are skeptical of your posts because they have not experienced this and more importantly you said you were contacting the school last week but never reported back as to what they said. You say the school allows it but unless you have notified them then maybe they do not know about it?

Also your posts sound a bit entitled to be honest. What parent would get this caught up on one assignment and send the paper to their sibling to read over? To me that is where the problem lies and maybe you are putting too much pressure on your daughter to get an A. This sort of thing will continue to happen throughout their life and college. There are always those teachers and bosses that are unfair.

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Anonymous wrote:The grading at NCS US can be very tough, my daughter just had a writing assignment where the grade was capped at 90. You could not get a higher grade, period. Also grading is very teacher dependent and some teachers definitely have reputations for being very harsh graders.
Both schools are hard. If you have kids at both, seems like STA comes out ahead in terms of admin and day to day operations.

My daughter is at NCS and I have never heard of this happening. What class and grade? I have a hard time believing this.

in such a small school, i’m not going to out myself or my daughter. i’m not lying and we will be discussing with school. my daughter was not the only student who was told this and so i tend to believe multiple girls on this one. maybe there is a further explanation but on its face it’s crazy.

What do you mean "capped at a 90?" You mean that the highest grade in the class was a 90 on this assignment? If so, that is totally reasonable. I'm a college professor, and especially in a small class you will find on occasion that nobody in the class does a good job on an assignment. That doesn't mean I should hand out an A "just because."

When you say "capped at a 90" people think you are trying to say that the teacher won't give out an A, no matter how good your work is. I highly doubt this is true.

You have no knowledge on which to make your judgment, which makes you a pompous windbag. Yes, the grade is capped at a 90 because the teacher will not give out grades above that… just because.

And you sound delusional. No teacher does this. I'm sorry your snowflake didn't get an A just because you believe she should have.

Your statement that no teacher does this proves my point that you’re an idiot. You’d have to be pretty asinine to make a statement about a school which you very obviously know nothing about. As for my snowflake, I don’t have one at NCS so there goes your stupid theory.

Wait you don’t even have a daughter at NCS and you have been commenting this entire thread on the grading and whatnot?! Point proven!

There you go again. Showing your idiocy. STA parents have a front row seat to what goes on at NCS. Siblings. Duh.

NP but confused. Up until your last couple “gotcha, you idiot” posts, all your posts (or ones you seemed to be responding to *as if* you wrote them) say “my daughter”. (“my daughter just had a writing assignment where the grade was capped at 90” and “my daughter was not the only student who was told this and so i tend to believe multiple girls on this one”). So either you are the poster with the daughter whose teacher supposedly caps at 90 or you are a parent who doesn’t have a child at NCS (but does have a “sibling” of…some other girl?…at STA?) but who claims to know exactly what teacher is being discussed and can assure us that said teacher does in fact cap at 90 on a whim. Which is it?

I’m the 90 cap on the assignment poster and I’m not the person you’re addressing here. This is my fifth post on this thread. You all must realize there are more than two or three people posting here. My daughter definitely goes to NCS, can’t speak to the other poster’s children!

Yeah it took me a while but there is the parent above who is not the troll, but there is also a troll with no child at NCS who responds to posts calling people idiots and pompous windbags.

Eh. Posting that something categorically does not happen when you don’t have a child at the school deserves being called a pompous windbag. There is a poster who doesn’t have a child there who keeps insisting NCS can’t possibly have teachers who cap grades at 90. Anyone who has a child at NCS Upper School knows differently.

Different poster and it's going on right now. My daughter just received an 88% on a paper that would have received an A in my college upper level English class. She actually sent it to my sibling who teaches at a top 10 university for his thoughts and he said the same. The top grade on this assignment by anyone in the class was a 90%. It is what it is and she's gotten used to it but it's the reality.

We have all experienced teachers or coaches that we believed treated us or our children unfairly. It happens. I think people don’t believe it because many of us have kids there and have asked our daughters and they said they had not experienced this. Others have asked their daughters after reading this and their daughters also said no.

Your post is a dis on parents who have posted that their daughters experienced grade capping. The question, “Did you experience this?” Is a pretty bad one. Your child may not have experienced it because they did not have that teacher, was never in the range for an A, or needs to believe it hasn’t happened to her because she wants to believe that if she works harder she can get that A next time.

Yes, English and history grading are subjective, but it can occur in other subjects, too, where one teacher of a math section presents much harder tests than the other.

No one is saying life isn’t unfair but when a teacher refuses to give As on principle no matter how good the quality of work and the school allows it, that’s penalizing the students unnecessarily and exacerbating the mental health issues they already face because of the intensity of academics at NCS.

DP. So it’s math now too?

What actions have you taken since you posted this last week? You express that you think it is completely unfair so what have you done about it besides post on here? Serious question.

If it’s a serious question, it’s insulting and suggests you know little of how NCS operates. Teacher independence is a touchstone. NCS admin will not engage with teachers on grading even as they acknowledge the grade deflation and deflect it by saying colleges know how rigorous the school is. Have parents had discussions with the school about this issue. Absolutely. Has it changed anything? No.

Math was used as an example of differences in how teachers in so-called “objective” subjects can also create inequities in grading.

You sound naive and ignorant. Serious question - how much experience do you have discussing issues with NCS or any private school leadership about teacher practices?

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Anonymous wrote:The grading at NCS US can be very tough, my daughter just had a writing assignment where the grade was capped at 90. You could not get a higher grade, period. Also grading is very teacher dependent and some teachers definitely have reputations for being very harsh graders.
Both schools are hard. If you have kids at both, seems like STA comes out ahead in terms of admin and day to day operations.

My daughter is at NCS and I have never heard of this happening. What class and grade? I have a hard time believing this.

in such a small school, i’m not going to out myself or my daughter. i’m not lying and we will be discussing with school. my daughter was not the only student who was told this and so i tend to believe multiple girls on this one. maybe there is a further explanation but on its face it’s crazy.

What do you mean "capped at a 90?" You mean that the highest grade in the class was a 90 on this assignment? If so, that is totally reasonable. I'm a college professor, and especially in a small class you will find on occasion that nobody in the class does a good job on an assignment. That doesn't mean I should hand out an A "just because."

When you say "capped at a 90" people think you are trying to say that the teacher won't give out an A, no matter how good your work is. I highly doubt this is true.

You have no knowledge on which to make your judgment, which makes you a pompous windbag. Yes, the grade is capped at a 90 because the teacher will not give out grades above that… just because.

And you sound delusional. No teacher does this. I'm sorry your snowflake didn't get an A just because you believe she should have.

Your statement that no teacher does this proves my point that you’re an idiot. You’d have to be pretty asinine to make a statement about a school which you very obviously know nothing about. As for my snowflake, I don’t have one at NCS so there goes your stupid theory.

Wait you don’t even have a daughter at NCS and you have been commenting this entire thread on the grading and whatnot?! Point proven!

There you go again. Showing your idiocy. STA parents have a front row seat to what goes on at NCS. Siblings. Duh.

NP but confused. Up until your last couple “gotcha, you idiot” posts, all your posts (or ones you seemed to be responding to *as if* you wrote them) say “my daughter”. (“my daughter just had a writing assignment where the grade was capped at 90” and “my daughter was not the only student who was told this and so i tend to believe multiple girls on this one”). So either you are the poster with the daughter whose teacher supposedly caps at 90 or you are a parent who doesn’t have a child at NCS (but does have a “sibling” of…some other girl?…at STA?) but who claims to know exactly what teacher is being discussed and can assure us that said teacher does in fact cap at 90 on a whim. Which is it?

I’m the 90 cap on the assignment poster and I’m not the person you’re addressing here. This is my fifth post on this thread. You all must realize there are more than two or three people posting here. My daughter definitely goes to NCS, can’t speak to the other poster’s children!

Yeah it took me a while but there is the parent above who is not the troll, but there is also a troll with no child at NCS who responds to posts calling people idiots and pompous windbags.

Eh. Posting that something categorically does not happen when you don’t have a child at the school deserves being called a pompous windbag. There is a poster who doesn’t have a child there who keeps insisting NCS can’t possibly have teachers who cap grades at 90. Anyone who has a child at NCS Upper School knows differently.

Different poster and it's going on right now. My daughter just received an 88% on a paper that would have received an A in my college upper level English class. She actually sent it to my sibling who teaches at a top 10 university for his thoughts and he said the same. The top grade on this assignment by anyone in the class was a 90%. It is what it is and she's gotten used to it but it's the reality.

Is your sibling thoroughly familiar with the curriculum of your daughter's English class to understand what the teachers were trying to assess? How they taught the material or how they taught students to write an essay? Is your sibling familiar with the previous essays your daughter wrote and whether or not the essay you think should receive an A was weaker than those?