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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This notion that grades should be a bell curve is archaic and dumb.

School is intended to help kids learn. It's OK if there are a lot of As handed out if they learn. It's not like they should be rationed.[/quote]

Especially if you have already screened admissions for high performers. If you are accepting kids who always got all As, why would you expect 75% of the them suddenly become poor students? And if your A students are also performing at the top of other standardized tests like APs or SATs, then you are not inflating. When your average SAT scores is above 1400, you should expect half the class to have A averages.[/quote]

This “screening” occurs mostly at ninth grade - a little at MS. [b]The lifers drag it down[/b]. [/quote]

Not true, pulling up my photo of the STA grads from last year that graduated Cum Laude ( top 16 students in the class with straight A's and taking mostly all APs) I count among them 5 lifers from Beauvoir- so 1/3 of the Cum Laude are kids who started at BVR in Pre-K despite STA adding to the class only the top 10% of outside applicants( or less)  in 4th, 7th and 9th 
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With 14 years of being taught on the Close with all the advantages that implies, shouldn’t more be top of class?[/quote]
Why should it be any higher than the percentage of lifers in the senior class, especially since most of the subsequent admits also came from advantaged backgrounds?[/quote]

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