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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is why college is so hard to get into and why students are so unprepared once they get there. They all get As and top scores. It means nothing.[/quote]

I simply disagree with this.  My kids worked hard and earned their AP scores; they are also doing very well in college — 100% prepared (more so than I ever was).  It’s like kids can’t ever win today.  If they earn straight A’s, everyone screams “grade inflation” without having any knowledge of how hard they worked.  If a kid gets a 5 on an AP test, it’s grade inflation again.  If they earn A’s in college, it’s also grade inflation.  But I know my kids and they are hard-working and better prepared than people of my generation.  The conversations I have with my kids are more well-informed, and they are excellent writers and critical thinkers.  I just don’t get all this talk about kids being stupid, because they are not.[/quote]

You miss the point. If your kids are hard workers and are doing well, good for them. The problem is that the majority of the grades are inflated and as a whole, students  are definitely not as prepared for college as they used to.[/quote]

I don’t get that students aren’t as prepared for college as they used to.  What’s your evidence?  Are flunk rates higher?  Graduation rates lower?  Sorry, we can’t just live on DCUM anecdotes.

I recall having many useless teachers back in HS that phoned it in.  I think people forget their own Hs years.

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I am not familiar with research at the college level, but so much of the education news locally is about how our schools have been nosediving with respect to national benchmarks in math and reading. And yet the GT enrollment continues to soar and grades are not suffering at all because teachers are under pressure to give high marks to show the illusion of success. Teachers and principals have gotten into hot water for altering student grades to pass more of them. Not sure what's going on in DCPS, but I know my area can't be the only one with this problem. https://www.npr.org/2023/06/21/1183445544/u-s-reading-and-math-scores-drop-to-lowest-level-in-decades

So yeah, I think it's safe to say that kids as a whole are not as well prepared for college as they used to be, which is very sad! Part of it was accelerated by the pandemic but I believe these trends started before the pandemic. [/quote]

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