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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow, did you really need a slide ruler to figure this one out?

Grade inflation is everywhere. Half the kids these days are [b]academic frauds/jokes [/b]yet somehow still get straight As.  How is that possible? When I was in highschool, As were reserved for the top 5-10% of the class.  Cs are for average work.  Your typical kid is a B- to C student, yet teachers and schools are too afraid to hand out real grades.

If vast majority of kids have fake grades, how else do you suggest we weed through the garbage without testing?  Testing forces students to demonstrate that they have a mastery of the knowledge their grades purportedly show that they have. If a straight A student has mediocre SAT scores, then you can bet they're really just a B-C student propped up on grade inflation fraud.

Stop trying to water down American education.  It will be catastrophic for the country's ability to innovate and compete if we keep handing out unearned spots to medicocre individuals.  MIT is just saying in a nice, [b]PC [/b]way what we all want to really say.  MIT is sick of kids slipping in who need remedial work and who are dragging down the quality of classes.  MIT has a reputation to uphold.[/quote]

MIT doesn’t have remedial classes and has maintained an excellent graduation rate. As for the bolded, it’s up to teachers & administrators to hold a hard like on academic standards in the face of students and their families. [/quote]
Teachers and administrators don't care what happens after the kids leave their system.  That's why they allow kids who can't even read or do  math at a MS level to graduate HS.  Shame on them.

MCPS has a 50% rule that serves no one but the administrators who can then tout how the URM kids at their schools are doing "better".  If they really cared about these kids they wouldn't give them a passing grade and send them off into the world even as they can't pass Algebra or read past a 4th grade level.[/quote]

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