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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Half of the graduating seniors at our public school have all As. Most have taken the exact same classes. Now you have hundreds of kids from even one school with the same academic credentials.[/quote]

What school system is this?  Is it one of the Maryland districts where you can get an A in the class with an 85 as long as your quarter grades are 80, 90, 80, 90?  Or are they just grades that are artificially high due to COVID-19 grading policies?

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At my kids' APS HS, grades were only given in Q4 for those who wanted to improve their class average for Q1-Q3 with the potential to go up 1 level.  So, any student who'd normally have Bs and has the least bit of ambition could pretty easily end up with all As.[/quote]

My kid’s public high school doesn’t have letter grades; it has a 100% scale. 5% boost for each honors class, 8% boost for Ap. The valedictorian this year (and there is one every year) had a 101.54 gpa. Cut off for NHS is a 92 weighted. [/quote]

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