Are straight As meaningful anymore?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPS with the huge budget it has, should offer intensive free preparation classes/summer camps for all low income students. That will put these kids on pair with the families that afford private tutoring.
Taking the standardized tests out doesn't solve anything. An "A" at a regular HS worth way less than an "B" at Thomas Jefferson for example.

Why not just offer great classes to everyone at school? Why would this be necessary?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS with the huge budget it has, should offer intensive free preparation classes/summer camps for all low income students. That will put these kids on pair with the families that afford private tutoring.
Taking the standardized tests out doesn't solve anything. An "A" at a regular HS worth way less than an "B" at Thomas Jefferson for example.

Well, it does help eliminate another standardized test with dubious merit. One can argue that SATs for example no longer mean anything. The scores are so jacked up that any slightly above average kid who takes a prep class can score 1500+ these days.

You are probably living in a bubble. 1500+ will place a kid in the top 2 percentile. 1350+ will place them in the top 10 percentile. https://satsuite.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/understanding-sat-scores.pdf

Not really half the well-known T3 schools have averaged in the mid-1400s. and even my alma mater which isn't all that has an average these days of 1550. These averages are very inflated compared to decades past.

Oh, the irony ...

You just proved that you are indeed in a bubble.