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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My upperclassman is in a class where an essay turned by last week had an average grade of an 82%.  This is what I mean by grade deflation.

My kid spent at least 10 hours on this (a one page essay) and received the average (82%).

It's just ridiculous.  The school admitted kids who were at the very top of their sending public and private schools, refined them by fire for 2+ years 
years (in very difficult humanities and writing classes) and is now continues to say, "oh no, despite your very best effort, most of you can only write at a B- level."  I have a different kid in a top public and this would have been a 98% there.  The standard at the private is just beyond unreasonable.  [/quote]
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How long your student spends on something is completely irrelevant to the grade as I am sure you can understand. Does any supervisor you have ever had care about how long something took you or the quality of the work? [/quote]

Whatever.  You're being an ass and picking at the semantics of my post. 
My reference to time was just to illustrate that my kid worked hard on this.  It wasn't something she wrote in 30 minutes at 11pm.  She gave best effort and it was very thoughtfully done and over the course of a week.  Classmates were the same--they also all spent 5-15 hours on this---also all got Bs or Cs.

There is something messed up when you take kids who are actively trying to do their very best and are super bright and then you grade them to an average of a B-. And as another data point: this kid just got a 790 verbal SAT in October (1570 overall).

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