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[quote=Anonymous]Compared to which schools? And when? Compared to half a century ago, I’d bet nearly *every* school gives out more As and fewer Cs than it used to. The thing about grade inflation is that most people think it’s happening, but think their own school deflates, which is not logically possible for most people to be right. How would you even measure this unless you took decades of report cards from across multiple schools? Even then you’d get murky results. Some schools say an A is 90-100, some say 92-100. Some curve, some don’t. At my own DC’s HS most dint curve, so if the high score on a test is 88, then the highest score is a B, not an A. Others do curve. Honestly I question whether letter grades don’t do more harm than good in furthering our DC’s quest for knowledge. [/quote]
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