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[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]
By your logic, the best professional sports leagues shouldn't have winners and losers because everyone who's made it that far is in the top 0.0001 percent of competitors already.[/quote]

That is a terrible analogy. Your child’s education is not a sports game. It shouldn’t be a competition at all. That’s a really unhealthy attitude, and yet many of our schools do treat academics as a competition instead of an education.[/quote]

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