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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But, mind you, this isn't curving.  Setting grades at pre-determined percentages is stupid.  One can always design a test to attempt to get any mean and standard deviation you want.  If you fail, just resort to these tactics.  :roll: [/quote]

I never realized before this how extreme the grade inflation is at TJ. The emperor has no clothes.[/quote]

The average grade on this test was a 61. I'm not sure how giving kids the opportunity to raise the average to a 71-- a C-  is grade inflation??

Approximately 2% of FCPS kids graduate from TJ.  The administration says that each year a small handful of kids-- usually at least one, never as many as 5-- of the 450 who graduate-- have an unweighted 4.0.  If a kid is putting in the work (and it is a lot of work), going to 8th period  and using peer tutoring in weak subjects, taking right leveled, not getting in over their head classes (see the kids not ready for Math 4) AND not taking too heavy a load-- on average 3-4 APs junior year, then they should be able to avoid getting Cs and Ds. But that's a lot of ifs.  And it's open season on Bs. Bs and B+s are very common and very respectable grades, and most kids have a department where they get them. My kid is just a B math student, which is not considered being weak in math. He just isn't incredibly strong.  Some kids get Bs in the Humanities blocks.  Some in chemistry and physics. Certain foreign language classes have a lot of Bs. Every kid hits them some time, in some subject, or some year when they overload.

And again, this is a test in magnet that takes only 2% of FCPS kids.  Over 100 NMSFs. Over 300 NMSFs plus NMSF commendeds. Almost all of these kids had unweighted 4.0s in MS, including high school level math and foreign language. And, almost all of these kids would have unweighted 4.0s at their base high schools.

You can accuse TJ of a lot of things and have a point. Stress.  Cheating.  Too much homework. All fair points. But,  accusing TJ of grade inflation is ridiculous. [/quote]

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