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[quote=Anonymous]B's, which literally mean "above average" work according to our district's grading scale are good enough for some students' goals and/or are acceptable to the parents.

B's are the best some students can do while working hard, even studying several hours today.

Some kids/families have enough going on that decent but not top grades is not a battle the parents choose to fight.

Some parents choose to have kids own their own work, deciding at MS/HS age how much work to put in and getting whatever grades are a consequence of that, and the student works to a standard that earns B's.

Those are just some reasons I can think of. Personally, we tie privileges to grades and if our kids are not getting all A's they do not get the maximum amount of freedom and other privileges that we are willing to grant them, but we "allow" B's in the sense that if that's the grade our kids earn we are not going to pile on a ton of consequences specifically to punish the grade until they bring it up.[/quote]

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