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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Insane grade inflation in DCPS:
https://www.swwrookery.com/post/hugely-inflated-are-pandemic-era-grading-policies-doing-more-harm-than-good
A's are given for "any effort at all"

SWW has fantastic college admissions again this year--better than any private.  This is what the DC private school kids are up against with their 
3.4's for working their a$$es off.  🙁

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WEIGHTED. The very beginning of this article said weighted. It said the median grade is over 4.0… which means we are talking about weighted. That’s a huge difference.[/quote]

Exactly! The title of this post is not correct! It’s 3.93 WEIGHTED. So plenty of kids are getting B’s and C’s in classes that are honors/AP. This whole thread should be deleted or the title fixed. [/quote]

So they’re no/less grade inflation at SWWs.

Valedictorian at our public high school had a 5.0 senior year: she took 5 weighted classes and two study halls for the straight As (5 classes)

Salutatorian had straight A’s senior year as well and they were tied going in to sr year (ie same weighted and unweighted cumulative gpa). But salutatorian took 7 classes: five weighted APs, Japanese and a Sr Yr independent research project at a hospital lab weekly. No 5.0 weighted that year, mathematically impossible, Japanese and ISRP were 4.0 As

Colleges saw right through it. Salutorian is by far the most successful and does life sciences at a global Vc, since age 25. now is 45.[/quote]

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