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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Where do you see the word weighted?

This is the paragraph:

“The junior class at Walls has an average GPA of 3.93, a number school counselor Kathryn Moore called “very high.” She also noted that the median GPA was over a 4.0. That means that well over half the class had a GPA above 4.0 at the start of the 2022-23 school year. This number will likely only increase, as juniors take on more AP classes, which are graded on a 5.0 scale.”

There is nothing to indicate that the 3.9 average gpa is weighted.[/quote]

Since you can't have an unweighted GPA over 4.0, the fact that the median is over 4.0 is proof that they are talking about weighted GPA.  That and the comment about the 5.0 scale.  [/quote]

How do you know that the 3.9 average gpa for juniors refers to a weighted gpa?  I’m not looking for inferences, I’m asking for facts.  The student who wrote this article should have made this clear.[/quote]

I know you’re joking because it’s not an inference it’s math, oh my word! [/quote]

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