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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is no such thing as grade deflation. That is how grades are supposed to be in reality.[/quote]

Well, when you admit a class of kids who all had straight As and high standardized scores, and you know you cannot give them all straight As like they all used to have, you need to do gymnastics to make sure the distribution of grades looks reasonable to colleges. For one teacher that may mean a painful curve where 2 wrong is a C; for another it may be giving harder and harder questions so no one can get them all correct; for another it may be a hard pop quiz on the Monday after Prom to catch a few kids out; etc. I've heard teachers say at our school that if more than certain number of students are getting perfects scores on quizzes and tests, they aren't making it hard enough. That's how you get a class average over 1400 on the SAT and yet 25% of the class with multiple C grades.[/quote]

Sorry, what you stated is not the reality.
SATs have nothing to do with course grades.
The "gymnastics" teachers do is not about not giving students Cs, but to not mark students down for anything. Teachers do this because of parents' and administration's pressures to keep the kids' grades up.
FWIW if the stdents at are all getting perfect scores, then you have to wonder 1) if the class has the right level of rigor 2) is there too much teaching to the test and handholding.[/quote]

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