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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This notion that grades should be a bell curve is archaic and dumb. School is intended to help kids learn. It's OK if there are a lot of As handed out if they learn. It's not like they should be rationed.[/quote] [b]Real life is a bell curve.[/b] Everybody doesn't belong at the high end. There are a few exceptional people and there are a few who are below average. Most people are in the middle.[/quote] The problem with this (to the extent it is true at all) is that no one is at either tail end for all aspects of “real life”. You are above average or exceptional in only very few narrow aspects of life. For everything else, you are average or worse. Think about your area of expertise, and then think of how little the average person knows about that. You are that second person for the vast majority of “real life”. So am I, and so is everyone else.[/quote]
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