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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm curious to know why so many people think that there is grade deflation at privates.  I have always heard the opposite, that grade inflation in private school is rampant.  This is basically because private school parents won't stand for less than B's.  It makes sense.  I can certainly see how a lot of families might decide that it's not worth paying $40,000 a year if their kid is only making C's.  I would guess that private schools know this and try very hard to keep this from happening.   [/quote]

For me, it's because (1) that was my own experience in a private high school, admittedly many years ago, where the class average was somewhere in the mid-80s, and anyone who got an average GPA in the 90s was likely in the top 10% of the class, (2) friends whose children are in private high schools now, who tell me in casual conversation that the average hovers around 90 now which is technically an A, but just barely, and (3) online reports I've seen from some private schools that show a bell-curve distribution, such as Andover where the average seems to hover around 4.9 on a 6-point scale (https://www.andover.edu/Academics/CollegeCounseling/Documents/PhillipsAcademySchoolProfile2015-2016.pdf).

For public school, my gut sense comes from (1) my own long-ago experience where average-intelligent friends from public schools got mostly As, and (2) a friend with children in local public high school now who tells me her "only moderately smart" children and their peers routinely get all A and A- grades, and that even one B would put them far behind the pack of most students.

Apparently Fairfax County has put a lot of thought into this whole grade thing - http://www.fairgrade.net/media/fairgrade/GradingPolicyInvestigationReport.pdf[/quote]

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