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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't even understand the suggestion. That if you are not in an Honors/AP course you get the max of a B?[/quote]

Yes, to send a real signal to parents and students the class is not anywhere near par for college prep. All these phony A's (and B's) just create a false sense of accomplishment.[/quote]

The "accomplishment" is supposed to be learning something/mastering the material that is taught.  If you master the material in a non-honors level course, you get an A.  Is this really so hard to understand?  OP, I think you might need to be demoted back down to non-honors level DCUM.[/quote]

[b]The issue is colleges accept them with inflated GPAs and shitty test scores and they all inevitably fail out. [/b]Why? Because kids and parents were conned into thinking they were prepared for college due to inflated GPAs. What you get is millions of kidding tapping $30k 50k 75k in loans with no degree or way to ever pay it back. Almost worse than the loans is kids who guilt trip their gullible parents out of cash for college because "I got A's and B's!"[/quote]

I don't think we're living in the same reality.

It sounds like you know so many failures that they're veritably cascading out of college with surprise, their high school As and Bs as pillows cushioning the blow.

Personally, I suspect the problem isn't so much the grade inflation (though that comes into play) as their decision to devote tens of thousands of dollars to a subject with no actual market value.

Sorry, but the world doesn't really another cutie pie with a degree in Art History/Angry Studies - gendered or racial/Sociology/English/Physical Education/Psychology/Etc.

Apparently "Communications" is still employable, but that's a joke the Gods are playing on the rest of us.[/quote]

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