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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]

Except for the fact that their teachers- faculty that have seen excellent students come and go for decades- are the one's deciding who's work is truly " A" work. Unless its a math test or a science subject, that is.

Look at it this way: the Medici founded an Art studio and invited certain artists to join, but not others. At one time they had Michaelangelo and Botticelli along side each other in the same studio garden with a Medici deciding for himself who's work was worthy of his patronage. I am , of course, pushing the argument to an extreme example, but when faculty become accustomed to really, really bright kids AND very hard workers then who gets an " A" becomes rarified.

[b]Still, the kids who benefit most from an STA education are the middle of the pack [/b]who might never get A's but just learn to work really , really hard while being humbled- the kind of self-discipline that serves them well for their lifetime. [/quote]

Lol no this is not true. When kids get to college they realize what a waste of time high school was and wished they had gone to a different high school. These high schools are pressure cookers and burn kids out. The workload at these schools are ridiculous.[/quote]

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