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The point of going to a top 3 school is to get a demanding, rigorous  education.

If you’re not happy with it, switch to public or Maret or  field or someplace like that.

Was your child admitted early, like in kindergarten or elementary? Maybe it’s not the right fit.

Bs are one thing by getting multiple scores like 75 or 65 could be a sign your kid shouldn’t be of the school.

I tire The people who get their kids into super progress schools and then complain that they are too rigorous.[/quote]

OP here.  No, kid was admitted in 9th.  Has straight As (some version of them) so far but at such a high cost.  
The 65s and 75s are class averages.  My kids is above average but still below an A.  Will probably eek out As again with a little luck and an immense amount of work.  
But the stress getting to that point is so, so high and most peers are not getting As.  Playing this game is getting old.  Studying for hours and hours
and still getting a B or C on every exam because that is how things are written. When essay exams are graded so that the average is an 82 and only 2 kids get above a 90 (had one of these recently).  I guess I get it if a math exam an 82 average.  But why grade an essay exam to an 82? 
(when your entire cohort can write and has read ALL the material and discussed it in class for weeks, etc). 
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The problem is that you are expecting your kid to get a public school gpa, probably because he was in public school through eighth. Stop putting that pressure on him. It is fine to get As and Bs at a big three. Aiming for straight As at a big three is unrealistic and ridiculous for most kids. Get over that goal.[/quote]

yes, but a couple of Bs and a GPA quickly trends down to a 3.5 or thereabouts...  
and kids at the 75th percentile or below in the class are increasingly having a hard time getting into decent colleges.

what i don't understand is why the schools don't help out their own kids.  They are in charge of the grading.  They don't have to grade an essay to an average of an 82 and give half the class a final grade of a straight B or lower  And then turn around and wonder why their kids with under a 3.5 can't get into Penn State.   :cry: [/quote]

You didn’t understand when you sit your kid to a big three that they have higher academic standards than a public school?

You just seem to want the name of the private school in the education of the private school but without actually having the education record of the private school. The point of the schools is do you have to work really hard and that they are very rigorous. If you didn’t want that for your kid, you should’ve stayed in public. These are hard schools. That’s the point.[/quote]

There's a difference between "higher academic standards" and assembling a super strong cohort of kids and then structuring the grading so that only a tiny percentage of this cohort (that you took because they were at the very top of their respective cohorts elsewhere) is able to get As. We never knew that was what we were in for.  My kid was floundering in DCPS--getting high As (lending the year with 98s and 99s in the top classes they offered) and she really wanted to move.  We're not from DC but went to "college prep" schools elsewhere.  Sure, you had to work hard; 3-4 hours of homework per night was normal.  But there wasn't any gatekeeping of good grades.  It was possible to get strong grades and they were fine with doling them out, even if 1/2 the class met this standard.  They weren't creating tests so the average is a 70.  I think what is so demoralizing in our experience here is that a kid give 200%, know the material backwards and forwards (eventually getting a 5 on the AP exam) and still routinely get a B in the class.  [/quote]

+1 This makes perect sense and completely agree [/quote]

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