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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 13 yr old son had his EOY awards ceremony. He said most of his class did not get 1st or 2nd honors (All As, As and Bs respectively). So most students got at least one C for the year. This is a Catholic school. At the EOY 5th grade closing ceremony at his former public school, I'd guess 70% of the kids got all As and Bs from grades 3-5. [b]Grade inflation is real.[/b] I'd rather pay tuition so he can get a real reflection of his abilities than all As when he did nothing to deserve them.[/quote]

This has not been our experience at FCPS middle and high schools.  DC is a bright student who got a 1500 on SAT, is in all advanced courses and has to work very hard to sometimes only get an A- in a course--never missing any hw, studying a lot, putting work into projects etc.  And if the grade is 92.4%, it becomes a 3.7 on the unweighted GPA.  And a 89.4 is a B+  becomes a 3.3 GPA.  The "higher" GPAs are with the .5 weighting for honors and 1.0 weighting for AP.  But rumors that everyone gets As with no work are not correct at all in our experience.  Likewise in elementary (though they had a 1-4 benchmark system not "grades" until 5th/6th grade).

FCPS has a "tougher" GPA accounting than her friends in Catholic high schools.  They get things that are called A's and B's with an occasional C but their unweighted GPAs are calculated in a much more generous way. [/quote]

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