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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you voluntarily choose private school, know that it is going to make your child look privileged and that you’re choosing to take a risk regarding the grading system.[/quote]
private schools, including many prestigious colleges, don't want to lower their average GPA, so they will do whatever it takes to make sure that a student passes the class.

K-12 Public schools have the stupid 50% rule for a different reason[b], but it amounts to the same thing,[/b] except the SES of the student body that it impact is just different.

Large college public schools are a sink or swim. [/quote]

Do you think the kids relying on the 50% rule in order to pass a class are the same kids competing for slots in the schools OP cares about?  [/quote]
? the point of the post is about how the system "helps" certain students with their grades, not about competing for the same college spots.[/quote]

The 50% rule helps kids pass classes to graduate. Private school parents love to use it as an example of lack of rigor, but the kids who their kids are actually competing with are not the kids using the rule [/quote]

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