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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The real question is "why is grade inflation so rampant at most schools?"

My kid goes to a similar (boarding) school with no inflation and "real" grades.  [b]The grading here in the schools is a joke--just read all the parents posting about 10 APs and GPAs of 4.5 or whatever.[/b]  Some schools have more than 50% of their kids with As.  The bell curve is dead.[/quote]

You read on the college forum here about public school kids with 10 APs and 4.5 GPAs but the kids have a low SAT or ACT. However, they insist there is no grade inflation at their public school,  their kids are “bad test takers” and the SAT/ACT aren’t relevant, are racist, etc. How did they get a 4.5 if they are not good at tests? Retakes? In contrast, my Big3 kids had 3.2 and 3.4 GPAs and ACT of 33 and 34. [/quote]

It is not as black and white (public v private) as you'd think. My kids are at a public high school in FCPS. No grade inflation. Zero retakes. Nothing counts except major assessments, like a test, major paper, or major foreign language presentation. The grading scale is not generous. Getting an A is incredibly difficult at their high school. Take the same students and plop them elsewhere, they'd have incredible grades. Please, please don't lump all public school kids together. If your kids get anything to help puff their grades up (classwork, homework, quizzes, practice work, presenting in class, etc.), consider them incredibly lucky.[/quote]

Shh, now. You are ruining the “disadvantaged” narrative.

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