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Anonymous wrote:Not at our school in the immersion program. The immersion teachers do not IMO easily hand out As. I think a lot of kids get Bs and below in Spanish language arts in 6th grade

Same at my middle school. There are tough teachers who do not hand out As easily in different subjects that my kid has come across over the years.

It's just an easy thing to say they all get As and do nothing for them.

Maybe all the kids in N. Arlington get As because they are all high achieving students lol. Come to S. Arlington Middle Schools I promise not all get As

Anonymous wrote:Not at our school in the immersion program. The immersion teachers do not IMO easily hand out As. I think a lot of kids get Bs and below in Spanish language arts in 6th grade

Same at my middle school. There are tough teachers who do not hand out As easily in different subjects that my kid has come across over the years.

It's just an easy thing to say they all get As and do nothing for them.

Not at our school in the immersion program. The immersion teachers do not IMO easily hand out As. I think a lot of kids get Bs and below in Spanish language arts in 6th grade

Anonymous wrote:Yes. Very common and easy to get. My kids never studied and had straight As. Even through HS.

If a student is taking most advanced courses APS offers across all the areas of study, it is not easy to get all As through high school and there will be some studying involved. Leaving PP's prodigy-level child out of the equation of course.

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Anonymous wrote:Extremely common. Just read up on the HS threads on valedictorians where everyone with above a 4.0 gets to be #1 in the class, meaning like 200 kids.

This does not mean they are all getting straight As. It means they take a lot of AP/IB/DE classes and likely get a mix of As and Bs. My DD was a W-L "valedictorian". She got a lot of Bs and occasionally had a C and once a D on a quarter report card. Fortunately for her GPA, that's based only on the final grade for the year.

In APS "valedictorian" means something more like "magna cum laude", aka the top tier of students in GPA but it's a pretty big tier.

I do understand this. But, it’s evidence of the problem of enormous grade inflation in APS (and all of the DMV publics). My experience has been straight As in MS is extremely common and not hard to achieve.

And yet someone above you just told you it was 10 percent of the class at the end of middle school. So maybe your experience isn't really reality.

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Anonymous wrote:Extremely common. Just read up on the HS threads on valedictorians where everyone with above a 4.0 gets to be #1 in the class, meaning like 200 kids.

This does not mean they are all getting straight As. It means they take a lot of AP/IB/DE classes and likely get a mix of As and Bs. My DD was a W-L "valedictorian". She got a lot of Bs and occasionally had a C and once a D on a quarter report card. Fortunately for her GPA, that's based only on the final grade for the year.

In APS "valedictorian" means something more like "magna cum laude", aka the top tier of students in GPA but it's a pretty big tier.

I do understand this. But, it’s evidence of the problem of enormous grade inflation in APS (and all of the DMV publics). My experience has been straight As in MS is extremely common and not hard to achieve.

When my kids graduated from an APS MS several years ago they recognized the kids who got All As in all quarters for all three years. I think it was maybe 10% of the class. I'm sure a ton more had a "straight As" based on As at the end of the year but those could have had the occasional B/C in a bad quarter.

Public schools in this area are really bad about grade inflation. Like Oprah passing out As.

Anonymous wrote:Extremely common. Just read up on the HS threads on valedictorians where everyone with above a 4.0 gets to be #1 in the class, meaning like 200 kids.

This does not mean they are all getting straight As. It means they take a lot of AP/IB/DE classes and likely get a mix of As and Bs. My DD was a W-L "valedictorian". She got a lot of Bs and occasionally had a C and once a D on a quarter report card. Fortunately for her GPA, that's based only on the final grade for the year.

In APS "valedictorian" means something more like "magna cum laude", aka the top tier of students in GPA but it's a pretty big tier.

Extremely common. Just read up on the HS threads on valedictorians where everyone with above a 4.0 gets to be #1 in the class, meaning like 200 kids.

Anonymous wrote:Are straight As pretty common in MS? Does that change between 6th, 7th and 8th?

Yes.

No.

My kid got straight As in 6th grade, somewhat more mixed grades in 7th, and now in 8th a mix of As and Bs. I do think there are higher expectations to earn an A by 8th grade.

Yes. Very common and easy to get. My kids never studied and had straight As. Even through HS.

I think they are common-ish and get less common as you get to 8th grade.

My kid has always gotten straight As but knows many kids who don't get straight As (and some who do). Contrary to what I see on here, he's had progressively more work outside of school as he's gone through middle school and does homework, projects outside of school time, reads books for school outside of school time, studies for tests. It's not hours every day by any stretch, but he has to put in some effort. So the kids who don't make any effort do stop getting As for just showing up at some point.

Are straight As pretty common in MS? Does that change between 6th, 7th and 8th?