Which high schools have the worst grade deflation?
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Anonymous
I’m lost. What is a “DSA female”? |
Anonymous
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As the parent of a recent St. Anselm's grad, I'm surprised to see it getting multiple nominations on this chain. It's hard to fall out of the 90s in many classes there and pretty straightforward to hit that mark in most of the others. There are only a couple of classes where it's actually a struggle to finish with an 'A' for most of the boys there.
How easy is the grading at other schools? |
Anonymous
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Some schools have reputations for more rigor/harder grading.
The other open secret in independent schools is that grading is often wildly inconsistent between teachers. Almost every course taught by multiple teachers has student gossip about good/bad and easy/hard. The partial subjectivity of humanities courses often compounds this. |
Anonymous
As another parent of a recent grad I think you’re smoking crack. AP Chem, ethics with alspaugh, calc and AP bio… it’s not easy at all to get A’s and for the kids that do consistently get A’s I know several of them and they work hard for them. |
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It's fascinating to witness the level of anxiety among upper middle class parents that stems from the observation that their children may, from time to time, encounter situations that are not absolutely fair in all respects and/ or that are outside their control.
Particularly when one considers that these children have already won the birth lottery. 
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Anonymous
+1 But congrats to PP's kid! It's not at all hard to fall out of the 90s and once you do, that's it. |
Anonymous
Dramatic much? You make it sound like a B is terminal |
Anonymous
+1 |
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ITYM "best grade deflation".
Kids learn a lot more if the grades are harder to obtain, and, over the long term, they're going to be less stressed out. Not going to off yourself over a C at Princeton if you had a D in English 10. |
Anonymous
| What is the point of giving all students A’s? If your kid has a 90 they are still ranked as the bottom student and it’s worse for the kids that get 98. |
Anonymous
I have really tried hard to impress this on my kids. "Back in the day," this was how grading was perceived and B students were really good students. An A meant you either really understood the material or it came naturally. Cs were more common. I feel like A+ students when I was growing up were truly rare, or truly gifted (and their parents were very matter of fact about it all). Our parents didn't have an up to the minute idea of how we were doing (or did we, really, for that matter). We had to wait until the test or paper fell on our desks and we saw the red mark. And noone really discussed grades. You either perceived someone was off the charts smart, or they were like you (and everyone else). Now, my 11th grader says if she gets a B she has failed. |
Anonymous
If you want to go to UVA, you better not have any Bs. |
Anonymous
Yes, no one on the past ten years has been admitted to UVA without straight A's. |
Anonymous
No, not at all; just stating an unemotional fact. What PP said is not true: "it's hard to fall out of the 90s." No, it isn't, and in fact most do. A 90 average is a 4.0, and in the last few graduating classes, going into senior year, only 2-6 boys had a 4.0 average, and they didn't all keep it by graduation. So nearly everyone falls out the 90s. One of mine rarely stayed in the 90s for any class, and is an AP Scholar with Distinction, did well above the class average on SATs, and is attending a great college and doing well. He's happy, we're happy, no drama. |
Anonymous
Or even this past year. 🙄 |