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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is OP again - do schools not do A minus anymore? I would say I got all As in HS but my GPA was like 3.8, thanks to a few A minuses. [/quote]

We're in Montgomery County Public Schools and an 89.5 is an A, no A- grades given on the report card. Also, they "average" the two quarter grades to come up with a semester grade. If DC gets a B one quarter and an A one quarter, even if their "average" is an 86% or something like that, it becomes an A on their report grade. Total grade inflation. [/quote]

See, this is insane. In my district, that's a B.

[b]And at my friends' kids' private school, if they got an 89.5 one quarter and an 80 the other, I'm pretty sure a C would show up on the report card.[/b] [/quote]
How in the world do an 89.5 and an 80 average to a C? Why would an 84.-something not be a solid B or at least a B- ? [/quote]

I think they were trying to be funny about how at some schools there is no grade inflation but deflation. [/quote]

Not being funny. 84 is the top of the C range. 
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But why? And who cares? It’s all relative.

(Also, that seems like deflating just for the sake of it. Like, why do you want your students earning grades in the 80s to have C averages? What does this prove?)[/quote]

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