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[quote=Anonymous]I don't think this is true at ALL schools by far, but at certain schools?

My kid is at a wealthy public school outside of Richmond and in a specialty center within that school, and I would wager to bet around at least 1/3 of his class has a 4.0 or higher. I'm sure that 75% of the kids in his program do.

My kid currently has a weighted 4.42 GPA, and that's not bragging because I doubt he's even in the top 50 of his class. I don't think it's generally because of cheating (although I heard lots of rumors about cheating during online school), and I don't see that his classes are easy. Certainly not easier than I remember my classes being.

I think there is just a lot more pressure now, and I think parents--including myself--contribute to it because we're so freaked out about our kids getting into college. And obviously because honors classes, dual enrollment and APs increase the GPA. I think I took 2 AP classes in high school, back in the early 90s. And that wasn't weird. I might have taken a few more if I'd been good in science and math. There just weren't that many that were offered at my school. My kid will probably have taken 11 by the end of high school--and he did a dual enrollment for Econ, AND almost all of his other classes are honors classes, which are weighted higher too.

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