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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think grade and SAT inflation is also really hurting parent and student expectations.  Back in the 90s only 1-2 kids at my high school had a 4.0 GPA.  There were no weighted classes so no GPAs above a 4.0 at all.  I got into Carnegie Mellon with a 3.75 GPA, which was very near the top of the class for my high school; the top student ended up at Harvard.

Now students who would have been B students in the 90s have 4.3 GPA, leading both them and their parents not to realize that a top GPA is now a 4.9 or some other nonsense.  It's the same with SAT scores.  A 1400 used to be really good.  Now it seems anything under a 1550 is mediocre.   All of the good students are bunched at the top, leading to a lack of separation amongst top students and more of a lotto feeling as to who gets in.  The grading scale is fundamentally broken.[/quote]

It's not broken, it's intentional. And it should be considered fraud. The school brass and teachers keep gullible parents dumb and happy (and quiet) with fake As and the College Board gets suckers hooked to their fake inflated tests.

I see so many parents bragging about their kid's "all A's" and you can just tell by the course list and the kid's orbit they are an average layabout. [b]The parents who brag about the A's never brag about official AP scores or SAT score.[/b][/quote]

Because those tests are not as predictive as grades are.

And we know you hate public schools.[/quote]

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