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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I apologize, but I'm afraid that I don't think I understand your point.

Are you saying that MCPS has a watered-down curriculum, and that the proof of this is that there are lots of MCPS honor-roll graduates with straight As who didn't get admitted to Stanford, MIT, or the Ivy Leagues?[/quote]

Why should Harvard, MIT and Stanford accept the applicant students in MCPS with straight As or on the honor roll...if the majority of the MCPS student body is on the honor roll?  These are all superb students?
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Harvard, MIT and Stanford are NOT accepting every MCPS student with straight As or honor roll. To get into these schools you need so much more: Intel prizes, 5s in AP Calc BC, and SATs of 2250 or above.

Look, there are two possible goals of grading:
(1) Measure if a kid has learned what was taught. This actually says nothing about the difficulty of what's being taught, BTW. An "A" only means that teachers have taught it and that kids have learned it.
(2) Separate sheep from goats (another PP said this, but I like it). In that case, re-curve the grades so that the bell curve is centered over a "C" grade (or maybe a "B" grade). The average kid in every class gets Cs and only 5-10% of kids get As or Fs. But then it's not clear what you're measuring, whether hard work or smarts. In any case, can you imagine this actually happening in the DMV area? Parents would be shrieking with anger![/quote]

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