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[quote=Anonymous]My kid goes to a Big3.  Junior year. 
The deflated grading feels worse than ever this year and is just exhausting.  My kid does homework for 4 hours per night.  Some nights it's even more. 
Goes in and takes exams.  Averages on a recent math exam: 70.  Average on a recent science exam: 65.  Average on a recent history exam: 85. 
Doing well just seems impossible, stress is so high.  There are no retakes, no curving, etc.  We know from experience that a few kids will end eek their way up to a 90% with lab reports, quizzes, perhaps a better second test. My kid is among these. But many won't.  They'll get a straight B or B- in the class even with maximum effort.  And then a 5 on the AP exam.  
In some classes only 1 or 2 kids will end up above a 90.  There is just so much stress and I don't understand why it has to be this hard.  
Why take a cohort of very bright, very hardworking kids and then give a straight B as the average (and a tiny handful of low A's across the grade?)  It's just exhausting.  
I'm not sure what the point it.  College admissions aren't even that great--colleges are no longer buying this "a 3.5 is a good GPA!" line. 
It's just too far out of the norm of what every other type of school is doing.

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