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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most accelerated kids are garden-variety bright, not gifted.

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Is this ever true. I was recently invited in to a fb parents group for "gifted" kids and it is mostly filled with questions from parents with es aged students trying to figure out how to get into the accelerated programs. [/quote]

In America, most success is from grit, not high IQ. So I'm not sure why you think this is a controversial or an especially keen insight.

[b]American k-12 education is a joke[/b], anyone with SOME motivation can ace all their high school classes. Over 50% of American high school seniors have an A average. All A's and a decent ACT/SAT score gets you into UMD/UVA. Grind a little harder and you're in top 20 private territory.[/quote]

Statistics are not your strong suit, I see.[/quote]

"More high school teachers are handing out A's...

Recent findings show that the proportion of high school seniors graduating with an A average — that includes an A-minus or A-plus — has grown sharply over the past generation ... to 47%."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/07/17/easy-a-nearly-half-hs-seniors-graduate-average/485787001/[/quote]
I found this part really interesting:
"Actually, they said, the upward creep is most pronounced in schools with[u] large numbers of white, wealthy students[/u]. [b]And its especially noticeable [u]in private schools[/u], where the rate of inflation was about three times higher than in public schools[/b]."
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Ooooooh yeah. This is the pp who posted about the uncertified/choose-your-own-adventure teachers in private schools. Grade inflation—at least at my school—is DRAMATIC. [b]A huge chunk of the reason (among many others) is parents reaching out (at best) or lashing out (at worst) to teachers about their child’s grades[/b]. I teach senior English, and I can’t tell you how many parents try to argue about their child’s grade when, for example, their child didn’t read the summer reading. It’s bananas!

So the path or least resistance for a lot of teachers is to give students/parents what they want: an A (without doing the actual work to earn it). [/quote]
I can absolutely see that play out.[/quote]

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