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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Just stop. What evidence (besides comments on DCUM) do you have that public schools inflate grades and private schools deflate grades?
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Just stop.  Are you serious? Let's start with MoCo.  In March 2020, the "do no harm" policy required students to earn at least one grade higher than they did the previous quarter.  So if you got a B, you got an A.  That's grade inflation.  How many posters on here with kids at Wilson have said they and all their kids friends now have averages in the high 90s, courtesy of the covid special grading policies.  [b]In public schools, you get a full point bump for AP classes[/b].  Again, grade inflation.  None of that exists at many of the private schools in this area.[/quote]

In MCPS you get a full point bump for AP [b]and[/b] honors, and honors is basically on-level.  I'd say 30-40% of the kids had a 4.4 or above GPA.[/quote]

In the case of MCPS I do not believe it is the gpa boost for honors/ap that is causing grade inflation (since colleges are going to be recalculating gpas based on their own formula). I think the grade inflation comes in for the averaging practices for semester grades, ability to turn homework in at any point in the semester for full credit, and testing retakes. These practices hurt the top kids who are gunning for selective college admissions the most, IMO. MCPS tracks weighted and unweighted grade distributions by high school since they send a "profile" along with transcripts for admissions officers. It would be interesting to see this data over the last 10 years. You can find individual school profiles if you google. I can't find a source for all the schools in one place.[/quote]

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