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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]yes, MCPS has the worst grade inflation in the DMV.  It's ridiculous.  You have to be basically  checked out to not do extremely well.

Colleges know but it doesn't correct everything.  [/quote]

It depends. Sure if you take honors (i.e. regular classes) it's pretty easy. Some students though sign-up for more rigorous programs and even take APs to boot.[/quote]

You only have to get an 89.5 one quarter and a 79.5 the next to get an A.  That in an of itself is INSANE grade inflation.  [/quote]

Is this true?? When I was in high school (yes, it was 20 years ago but still!) an 89 was a B and a 79 was a C so how would these average out to an A??[/quote]

Not a MCPS family so not speaking from experience but from context it wasn’t an 89, it was an 89.5.  Presumably MCPS rounds to the nearest integer? So that would round up to 90. Similar with 79.5 rounding up to an 80.  I don’t know how they get that an A one semester with a B another semester rounds to an A.  I’m sure there’s some explanation but it’s not obvious to me.  At my kid’s private they round to the nearest 10th so I don’t really get all this.

In any event, grade inflation is a mixed bag.  Kids should have realistic indicators of how much they’ve mastery of the subject they have.  But letter grades and forced bell curves are also kinda arbitrary and lead to grade grubbing so aren’t a great system either.  [/quote]

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