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[quote]Here's the 4th grade education level version: What if 30% of all students scored a perfect 2400 on the SAT exam and another 80% scored 2200 and/or above?

What would you think about the SAT exam?

What would you think about the students taking the SAT exam?

Would you think the SAT is a useful exam?[/quote]

[quote]What do you think is the purpose of grades? Separating the sheep from the goats, or measuring what you have learned?[/quote]

I agree with you here as you and other MCPS parents should not be surprised when the vast, vast, majority of your honor roll and straight A children will never see the halls of Stanford, MIT, or the Ivy leagues (or other top colleges) since all these grades simply mean the sheep and goats in MCPS have only met the bar provided to them by MCPS teachers in their watered down curricula?

That's far too low a bar for top colleges and Professors at the next level.  But, it always amazes me when parents and their children argue over their skewed GPAs as if there is a materially difference between straight As (2400) and a 3.7 (&gt; 2100) when their golden child is denied admission over another student.  When 80% of all students are on the honor roll and one third have straight As in MCPS why argue with another parent or student who got into Harvard and your child did not.

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