Anonymous wrote:What is sports study hall? I have a Junior and never heard of this. Thanks!

Some sports have mandatory study hall after school before practice. Some don’t, depending on what time they start.

What is sports study hall? I have a Junior and never heard of this. Thanks!

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Anonymous wrote:My kid had straight A’s and I rarely if ever saw him doing homework. Seemed pretty easy.

I don’t believe this is from a Gonzaga parent. Of course some kids have straight A’s, but never saw DC doing homework?

Not OP but my kid gets straight As all honors and very rarely do I see him doing homework. He gets most of it done during school via his free period or his sport's study hall. And by rarely, it is maybe 1 or 2 nights a week for 20-30 minutes. He's just always been efficient with work v. my other children that took much longer to get their work done.

There isn’t any but it wouldn’t really matter if they did. The colleges are aware of which ones inflate and adjust accordingly. Look at where the school regularly send kids to college. Every year a few Gonzaga grads go to the top schools and many more go to the next rung down. It’s all good.

It's been may years since DS graduated, but with mid term and final exams counting for 1/3 of quarterly grades, grade inflation is non-existent.

Anonymous wrote:We are a new family but in my opinion so far there is little, if any. Grading is difficult overall and expectations are high.

DS is an upperclassman at Gonzaga and I agree with this. Students need to work very hard to earn As.

Anonymous wrote:My kid had straight A’s and I rarely if ever saw him doing homework. Seemed pretty easy.

I don’t believe this is from a Gonzaga parent. Of course some kids have straight A’s, but never saw DC doing homework?

Anonymous wrote:My kid had straight A’s and I rarely if ever saw him doing homework. Seemed pretty easy.

OP, this is the kind of unhelpful stuff you’re going to get without details. What are you really asking? From my experience, there’s a big difference between regular and honors workload but grading would be considered (as a PP said) is old school and fair in all classes. There are some really smart kids who get straight As and there are plenty who struggle. But not sure what you’re really asking about.

None, it’s pretty fair old-school grading

My kid had straight A’s and I rarely if ever saw him doing homework. Seemed pretty easy.

Is there a substantial difference between the degree of course difficulty from 9th to 10th grades making A’s harder to come by?

lol. 3 boys and 0 classes where you could say there was grade inflation. That said, As are possible.

We are a new family but in my opinion so far there is little, if any. Grading is difficult overall and expectations are high.

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How much grade inflation is there at Gonzaga? Is it different for Honors vs. regular classes?