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[quote=Anonymous]No curve.

Many kids still get all A's.  Some kids get more B's than they used to.  My daughter reports that only a very few kids get a C (and then not likely more than one).   For middle school magnet applications, test scores are still more important than grades.  After test scores, interest in the magnet subject and recommendations are probably more determinative than grades, if you're talking about the difference between straight As and mixture of As and Bs.  If an HGC student is getting Cs, then there's usually some other problem -- maybe the kid is really on the cusp of belonging in the program, but more likely the organization factor is overwhelming.  Forgotten homework and half-ass classroom work because a kid is fooling around are more likely to torpedo a grade than bombing a test because the kid truly didn't understand.

My perspective on self-esteem -- I think it's better for them to experience having to work for a grade than to coast thru school with all A's and then hit a wall in high school or college when they finally have to begin making an effort.  IMO, getting all As all the time isn't great for self-esteem in a different way.  [/quote]

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