Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh no! I'll call Yale and let them know immediately what is happening. Actually, I'll just stop in the admissions office because 2 Walls kids who are accepted are visiting this weekend. Oh and they didn't put up their insta achievement yet. Walls did GREAT this year. The kids work hard and come in already knowing how to work hard. I'd say between legacies, hooks, and the early year admissions, the GPA at Sidwell is going to be lower and classes to some extent dumbed down. Kid for kid, the Walls crop is going to win out. (and it's free! and they are getting a great education) and weird private parents are so interested they are reading the school's newspaper.

what a petty, jerky post. And they say all the jerk parents are at private schools....This post certainly proves otherwise

Um, you're all bashing on Walls kids. Give me a break. Congrats to your kids acceptance. Yale is a fantastic school! I know another girl from Walls going to Yale as well.

Then Yale must be selecting the low hanging fruit this year.

lololol!!! textbook sour grapes

Do you want your children to learn things or do you want to them to go famous schools? This is the trade-off of which you need to be aware, and this trade-off is one that replicates in college. Harvard, which passes out As as if they were Halloween candy, gets their kids better admissions to grad school than schools that don't.

https://www.the74million.org/article/students-benefit-tough-grading-standards/


'Across several metrics of academic success, students who were exposed to higher grading standards fared better than their peers. Compared with students who had previously demonstrated similar levels of math performance, those assigned to stricter graders saw larger scoring gains. Notably, those effects were both sizable and linear, meaning that the tighter the grading practices — moving from the easiest-grading quarter to the very hardest — the larger the improvement on test scores.

Students of tougher graders also maintained some of their scoring advantage into the next two classes of North Carolina’s math sequence, geometry and Algebra II. The effects were actually twice as large in Algebra II as they were in geometry, a nuance the authors specifically cited in the paper: Perhaps because of the similarities in content between the two levels of algebra, they theorized, students who were formerly held to higher standards did especially well in the later class, even though the effects should have faded more because of the further passage of time.

“That suggests this wasn’t a pure grade-chasing effect where students crammed more for the test so that they could do better and get the grade they needed,” Gershenson explained. “Instead, it makes me think that there was some real learning that happened and was retained.”'

Ok good for those that got in and are doing well. I’m keeping my kids in private.

Anonymous wrote:Anyone that things tye majority of private school parents don't send kids to private schools for college results should read this thread. Grade inflation has been around for a while. Too bad these parents just figuring it out!

You're proud of grade inflation?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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. 🙁

This reminds me of my bad public high school. We took AP Physics and all got As….we all took the AP exam and no one understood how to answer a single question.

How are Walls AP results?

Very strong - I congratulated my son after he got 5 and he said it was no big deal. All of his friends got 5s and 1 got a 4.

Anonymous wrote: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. 🙁

They are not "up against" anything. Colleges and universities are well aware that some DC privates are on a 4.0 scale. And 4.53 is what it takes a public kid to get into UVA. Everyone knows there are two standards. What has changed, however, is with the new equity movement, public kids are being chosen over the more privileged privates.

I actually read all 13 pages of this thread. What a waste of time Is there grade inflation at some school? Yes. Why is there this continuous battle on DCUM about private vs public education?

My kid wanted to go to a big state university. Was a lifer (at a private -Big 3) who wanted a new experience at a big state flagship university. Accepted to 9. My kid did not get into or was rejected from kids top 3 choices. So what.

My kid is excited about the choice he made, I hope my private school kid is friends with your public school kids.

The horror of private school children interacting and having potentialy life long friendships with public school kids is just...I could go on but I won't.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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. 🙁

This reminds me of my bad public high school. We took AP Physics and all got As….we all took the AP exam and no one understood how to answer a single question.

Except it's not ..and not even close

Did you read the article which stated AP school grades don’t align with actual AP test scores?

Anyone that things tye majority of private school parents don't send kids to private schools for college results should read this thread. Grade inflation has been around for a while. Too bad these parents just figuring it out!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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. 🙁

This reminds me of my bad public high school. We took AP Physics and all got As….we all took the AP exam and no one understood how to answer a single question.

Except it's not ..and not even close

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh no! I'll call Yale and let them know immediately what is happening. Actually, I'll just stop in the admissions office because 2 Walls kids who are accepted are visiting this weekend. Oh and they didn't put up their insta achievement yet. Walls did GREAT this year. The kids work hard and come in already knowing how to work hard. I'd say between legacies, hooks, and the early year admissions, the GPA at Sidwell is going to be lower and classes to some extent dumbed down. Kid for kid, the Walls crop is going to win out. (and it's free! and they are getting a great education) and weird private parents are so interested they are reading the school's newspaper.

what a petty, jerky post. And they say all the jerk parents are at private schools....This post certainly proves otherwise

Um, you're all bashing on Walls kids. Give me a break. Congrats to your kids acceptance. Yale is a fantastic school! I know another girl from Walls going to Yale as well.

Then Yale must be selecting the low hanging fruit this year.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh no! I'll call Yale and let them know immediately what is happening. Actually, I'll just stop in the admissions office because 2 Walls kids who are accepted are visiting this weekend. Oh and they didn't put up their insta achievement yet. Walls did GREAT this year. The kids work hard and come in already knowing how to work hard. I'd say between legacies, hooks, and the early year admissions, the GPA at Sidwell is going to be lower and classes to some extent dumbed down. Kid for kid, the Walls crop is going to win out. (and it's free! and they are getting a great education) and weird private parents are so interested they are reading the school's newspaper.

what a petty, jerky post. And they say all the jerk parents are at private schools....This post certainly proves otherwise

Um, you're all bashing on Walls kids. Give me a break. Congrats to your kids acceptance. Yale is a fantastic school! I know another girl from Walls going to Yale as well.

Anonymous wrote:Oh no! I'll call Yale and let them know immediately what is happening. Actually, I'll just stop in the admissions office because 2 Walls kids who are accepted are visiting this weekend. Oh and they didn't put up their insta achievement yet. Walls did GREAT this year. The kids work hard and come in already knowing how to work hard. I'd say between legacies, hooks, and the early year admissions, the GPA at Sidwell is going to be lower and classes to some extent dumbed down. Kid for kid, the Walls crop is going to win out. (and it's free! and they are getting a great education) and weird private parents are so interested they are reading the school's newspaper.

what a petty, jerky post. And they say all the jerk parents are at private school....This post certainly proves otherwise

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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. 🙁

This reminds me of my bad public high school. We took AP Physics and all got As….we all took the AP exam and no one understood how to answer a single question.

How are Walls AP results?

Anonymous wrote: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. 🙁

This reminds me of my bad public high school. We took AP Physics and all got As….we all took the AP exam and no one understood how to answer a single question.