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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, it’s the entitled attitude of parents at privates that fuels this annual complaint. You are choosing the environment for your child and for most of the year, you think it’s pretty darn good. But woe! College applications are due and suddenly the school doesn’t understand how terribly unfair their grading system is.

The schools know. You know. Your choice. And mine. But I don’t whine about it.

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As someone with kids in both, I think the public school grade inflation hurts kids in public the most, but a side effect of that is that kids with properly assessed GPAs (not deflation, just properly evaluated) are a side effect of that. And I think it’s a conversation that needs to happen. It does nobody any good to

By the way, private schools used to be really bad with grade inflation years ago, and it started impacting college admissions negatively, and they course corrected. So having these conversations (without being dramatic or nasty) is a good thing, not a bad thing. It does nobody any favors to pretend that the Covid grade inflation is not a real issue. [/quote]

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