If your junior had a significant improvement in grade this year...

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Anonymous wrote:Hey rich families, chill! No one is talking about your precious snowflakes. The big issue is the kids who were online and cheating all year. By the way, no one had grade inflation, so you can stop that narrative. The kids who have straight As and didn’t earn them were the kids who were texting and facetiming each other during tests, and having older siblings/friends/parents/godknowswho taking tests and writing their papers.

I'm a current student at TJ, it was confirmed to me in a private phone call with a TJ teacher that the grade inflation (in the classes they were teaching) was massive this year. Do with that info what you will.

Personally, I believe that a lot more students ended with As this year than in the past, for equivalent classes. My own math teachers have talked about how the class averages are higher. Some of my friends who never got straight As at TJ in the past have them this year. It's a mixture of cheating, general leniancy from teachers with deadlines, and tests counting for a lower portion of your final grade. I got away with doing a lot less work than before to have almost 100% in some classes... not that I didn't appreciate it, of course.

This is 100% a troll. No TJ student is having “private phone calls” with a teacher. That would be considered entirely unethical. And we’re supposed to believe TJ students are posting here on a Friday night? Nice try.

I posted it. I was in a small group call. I consider that "private" because no one else could hear it. We got off topic and I asked about grade inflation and shit about online learning in general etc. I'm not going to reveal more for the sake of everyone's identity so don't try. Beyond confused what's "unethical". Would you consider talking to a teacher in private "unethical"? I hope none of your kids are learning that from you or their moral compass will lead them straight off into the Mariana trench.

The last comment about TJ students posting on a Friday night just baffles me. What else am I supposed to be doing on a Friday night? Oh, please... I've been working hard all summer, what have you been doing?

Reading over what I just wrote, I come off a bit aggressive. But every word I've written is true, so keep your comments to yourself if you have nothing to say but call me a troll. Take care.

Any kid using this board at all is weird. There is no reason for a kid to be on a message board titled “dcurbanmoms”

Because we like trolling you boomers. Who do you think stirs the pot with tier lists and college ranking arguments? Lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread is confirming that yes, there was tons of cheating, often fully supported by parents, and this is exactly why college admissions officers are going to have a very complex task of sorting through transcripts and making that determination.

This thread confirms nothing of the sort. There are probably two or three people here admitting they helped their kids - the rest is simply rumor-mongering by incredibly insecure parents.

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Anonymous wrote:I hope this isn’t that common. Most of my kids classes were hard to gain a big advantage on tests because they were timed and solving problems or writing essays/short responses. It never occurred to me that parents would actively help their kid cheat by helping them take the test. That is just some seriously poor parenting. I hope there aren’t many parents out there who would facilitate their kids cheating. However, I may be naive. Look at the Varsity Blues scandal.

You are naive. Parents in this area will do absolutely anything to gain an advantage for their kids. Zero morals.

DP. Including you, apparently.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is confirming that yes, there was tons of cheating, often fully supported by parents, and this is exactly why college admissions officers are going to have a very complex task of sorting through transcripts and making that determination.

This thread confirms nothing of the sort. There are probably two or three people here admitting they helped their kids - the rest is simply rumor-mongering by incredibly insecure parents.

Also meant to say, it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if the “parents” admitting to cheating were actually trolls, just stirring the pot - as the TJ student mentioned.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is confirming that yes, there was tons of cheating, often fully supported by parents, and this is exactly why college admissions officers are going to have a very complex task of sorting through transcripts and making that determination.

This thread confirms nothing of the sort. There are probably two or three people here admitting they helped their kids - the rest is simply rumor-mongering by incredibly insecure parents.

Also meant to say, it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if the “parents” admitting to cheating were actually trolls, just stirring the pot - as the TJ student mentioned.

The "trolling" comment was not from me, must be another kid on the forum. Be careful moms, you don't know how many people you're talking to haven't even graduated high school yet.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is confirming that yes, there was tons of cheating, often fully supported by parents, and this is exactly why college admissions officers are going to have a very complex task of sorting through transcripts and making that determination.

This thread confirms nothing of the sort. There are probably two or three people here admitting they helped their kids - the rest is simply rumor-mongering by incredibly insecure parents.

Also meant to say, it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if the “parents” admitting to cheating were actually trolls, just stirring the pot - as the TJ student mentioned.

The "trolling" comment was not from me, must be another kid on the forum. Be careful moms, you don't know how many people you're talking to haven't even graduated high school yet.

Your writing style is obvious.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is confirming that yes, there was tons of cheating, often fully supported by parents, and this is exactly why college admissions officers are going to have a very complex task of sorting through transcripts and making that determination.

This thread confirms nothing of the sort. There are probably two or three people here admitting they helped their kids - the rest is simply rumor-mongering by incredibly insecure parents.

Also meant to say, it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if the “parents” admitting to cheating were actually trolls, just stirring the pot - as the TJ student mentioned.

The "trolling" comment was not from me, must be another kid on the forum. Be careful moms, you don't know how many people you're talking to haven't even graduated high school yet.

Your writing style is obvious.

Let me get this straight. Rather than believing another poster decided to message on the board, you think I pretended to be someone else just to say I like "trolling" "boomers" online? That post was legitimately not me *facepalm*. My first post was completely in line with the topic of the thread and talking about grade inflation. Since then, I've been called a troll, accused of lying, etc. I really hope I'm being trolled.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:make sure they take the SAT or ACT this summer and submit those scores, even to "test optional" schools. They are going to need to show that they earned the grades and weren't given them as part of the pandemic/online learning chaos.

Just got DC's SAT score today. The score does match the pandemic A's earned.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:make sure they take the SAT or ACT this summer and submit those scores, even to "test optional" schools. They are going to need to show that they earned the grades and weren't given them as part of the pandemic/online learning chaos.

Just got DC's SAT score today. The score does match the pandemic A's earned.

Test score doesn't always equal classroom performance, even without "pandemic grades". My DC had an SAT score that was definitely higher than the GPA would suggest; it was top 25% at many schools where the GPA was only in the middle 50%. Apparently, the kid tested well.

I'm not sure who all these people claiming pandemic grades were hugely inflated are. My kids earned pretty much the same grades they've always earned, and they were not all A's. In fact, DC #2s math grade was a bit lower than previous years because online teaching was awful, the main teacher quit mid year and the replacement had no clue, and my kid refused to cheat.

[Anonymous]

I teach HS. Cheating was rampant, often obvious, sometimes brazen.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone who applies TO this year doesn’t want to submit scores. I have a rising college freshman and even with the pandemic- we got in ONE sitting. It was so much harder last year. I get some administrations are cancelled but all of ours were from Jan- Sept 2020.

I agree.Test sites are no longer being canceled due to Covid. They might be canceled due to other random issues like they were pre-pandemic, but not Covid.

I think that can vary from site to site, especially depending on the population administering the test.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone who applies TO this year doesn’t want to submit scores. I have a rising college freshman and even with the pandemic- we got in ONE sitting. It was so much harder last year. I get some administrations are cancelled but all of ours were from Jan- Sept 2020.

I agree.Test sites are no longer being canceled due to Covid. They might be canceled due to other random issues like they were pre-pandemic, but not Covid.

I think that can vary from site to site, especially depending on the population administering the test.

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My kid has already had two test administrations canceled - since May.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone who applies TO this year doesn’t want to submit scores. I have a rising college freshman and even with the pandemic- we got in ONE sitting. It was so much harder last year. I get some administrations are cancelled but all of ours were from Jan- Sept 2020.

I agree.Test sites are no longer being canceled due to Covid. They might be canceled due to other random issues like they were pre-pandemic, but not Covid.

I think that can vary from site to site, especially depending on the population administering the test.

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My kid has already had two test administrations canceled - since May.

Where are they being canceled? We live in fcps and my kid is taking the ACT for the third time since April this weekend.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone who applies TO this year doesn’t want to submit scores. I have a rising college freshman and even with the pandemic- we got in ONE sitting. It was so much harder last year. I get some administrations are cancelled but all of ours were from Jan- Sept 2020.

I agree.Test sites are no longer being canceled due to Covid. They might be canceled due to other random issues like they were pre-pandemic, but not Covid.

I think that can vary from site to site, especially depending on the population administering the test.

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My kid has already had two test administrations canceled - since May.

Where are they being canceled? We live in fcps and my kid is taking the ACT for the third time since April this weekend.

One at Marshall HS was cancelled in June, and Justice was cancelled for July.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone who applies TO this year doesn’t want to submit scores. I have a rising college freshman and even with the pandemic- we got in ONE sitting. It was so much harder last year. I get some administrations are cancelled but all of ours were from Jan- Sept 2020.

I agree.Test sites are no longer being canceled due to Covid. They might be canceled due to other random issues like they were pre-pandemic, but not Covid.

I think that can vary from site to site, especially depending on the population administering the test.

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My kid has already had two test administrations canceled - since May.

Where are they being canceled? We live in fcps and my kid is taking the ACT for the third time since April this weekend.

One at Marshall HS was cancelled in June, and Justice was cancelled for July.

That’s bad luck. We’ve had no issues with Fairfax and Chantilly.