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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You do realize what average is mathematically, right? Bell curves and all that? [/quote]

What does the bell curve have to do with high school grades?[/quote]

Everyone can't get As. [/quote]

I disagree with OP's premise entirely, but I also don't think this is accurate. My HS age students have definitely been in classes where the vast majority (far more than a bell curve model would allow) all got A's.

In my experience few if any HS classes are graded on a curve, and even my older kids' universities seem to be doing away with that concept. It's possible for the course to be taught well enough that most students get enough material correct on exams to earn a percentage grade in the A range, especially if it's a class with easily verifiable right or wrong answers where student X's performance can do nothing to impact the relative quality of student Y's work and whether or not student Y got all the answers correct.[/quote]

Then the class is poorly designed and not rigorous. Everyone is mediocre at that point. [/quote]

Isn't it possible to have a well-designed, difficult class AND dedicated students who learn the material enough to not make mistakes on the exam? If hardly anyone gets more than a few points off divided by points possible, most of the class will have 93%+ and get an A. No?[/quote]

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