Anonymous
06/05/2025 12:51
Subject: Do you do something special for your high schooler when they get straight As?
Yes! My child goes to a magnet STEM school where it is extremely challenging to get As- and they are all smart kids that test in. About 10% of seniors graduate with a 4.0 unweighted.
Anonymous
06/05/2025 12:38
Subject: Do you do something special for your high schooler when they get straight As?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:FCCPS had 99/222 graduate with over 4.0 this year and bragged about it. So no, I would not do anything special for your kid with straight As. Grade inflation is everywhere.
https://mhs.fccps.org/o/mhs/article/2237777
Graduating with over 4.0 doesn’t mean got straight As. OP is asking about getting all As and not weighted GPA of 4.0. The linked article says “ 99 Valedictory Scholars earned cumulative GPAs of 4.0 or higher” not 99 got all As.
The reason kids end up in therapy during college is because grade inflation ends the second you finish your last exam in high school.
Meh - our two got straight As in HS and college, Dean's list every semester, one graduated Summa Cum Laude, the other one likely will when they graduate next year.
Sometimes it's grade inflation, sometimes it's the kid. BTW, the kuddos goes to them, we as parents didn't do anything special, no supplementing, tutors, etc., just high expectations
Dean’s List isn’t hard and doesn’t require all As.
Anonymous
06/05/2025 09:58
Subject: Do you do something special for your high schooler when they get straight As?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:FCCPS had 99/222 graduate with over 4.0 this year and bragged about it. So no, I would not do anything special for your kid with straight As. Grade inflation is everywhere.
https://mhs.fccps.org/o/mhs/article/2237777
Graduating with over 4.0 doesn’t mean got straight As. OP is asking about getting all As and not weighted GPA of 4.0. The linked article says “ 99 Valedictory Scholars earned cumulative GPAs of 4.0 or higher” not 99 got all As.
The reason kids end up in therapy during college is because grade inflation ends the second you finish your last exam in high school.
You should know that colleges have grade inflation as well. Check the stats if you are in doubt.
Anonymous
06/05/2025 09:56
Subject: Do you do something special for your high schooler when they get straight As?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:FCCPS had 99/222 graduate with over 4.0 this year and bragged about it. So no, I would not do anything special for your kid with straight As. Grade inflation is everywhere.
https://mhs.fccps.org/o/mhs/article/2237777
Graduating with over 4.0 doesn’t mean got straight As. OP is asking about getting all As and not weighted GPA of 4.0. The linked article says “ 99 Valedictory Scholars earned cumulative GPAs of 4.0 or higher” not 99 got all As.
The reason kids end up in therapy during college is because grade inflation ends the second you finish your last exam in high school.
Meh - our two got straight As in HS and college, Dean's list every semester, one graduated Summa Cum Laude, the other one likely will when they graduate next year.
Sometimes it's grade inflation, sometimes it's the kid. BTW, the kuddos goes to them, we as parents didn't do anything special, no supplementing, tutors, etc., just high expectations
Anonymous
06/05/2025 09:28
Subject: Do you do something special for your high schooler when they get straight As?
Anonymous wrote:I take them to Krispy Kreme.
Me too! Free donut for every A on the report card. We don’t have one near us, but have gone when were near one.
Anonymous
06/05/2025 09:28
Subject: Do you do something special for your high schooler when they get straight As?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:FCCPS had 99/222 graduate with over 4.0 this year and bragged about it. So no, I would not do anything special for your kid with straight As. Grade inflation is everywhere.
https://mhs.fccps.org/o/mhs/article/2237777
Graduating with over 4.0 doesn’t mean got straight As. OP is asking about getting all As and not weighted GPA of 4.0. The linked article says “ 99 Valedictory Scholars earned cumulative GPAs of 4.0 or higher” not 99 got all As.
The reason kids end up in therapy during college is because grade inflation ends the second you finish your last exam in high school.
Anonymous
06/05/2025 09:27
Subject: Do you do something special for your high schooler when they get straight As?
Anonymous wrote:Congratulate them, but no money gifts - you want them to do well for themselves, not for the reward of money
This.
Never understood paying kids for grades.
Anonymous
06/05/2025 09:26
Subject: Do you do something special for your high schooler when they get straight As?
Anonymous wrote:I remember my dad handing me a $100 bill when I did and it left an impression!
Anyone else do anything for their kids? I think straight As is a big deal; would like to celebrate it somehow. But the kid is not super materialistic.
They get a golf clap and then we’re on to the next semester. I expect straight A’s.
Anonymous
06/05/2025 09:11
Subject: Do you do something special for your high schooler when they get straight As?
Anonymous wrote:FCCPS had 99/222 graduate with over 4.0 this year and bragged about it. So no, I would not do anything special for your kid with straight As. Grade inflation is everywhere.
https://mhs.fccps.org/o/mhs/article/2237777
Graduating with over 4.0 doesn’t mean got straight As. OP is asking about getting all As and not weighted GPA of 4.0. The linked article says “ 99 Valedictory Scholars earned cumulative GPAs of 4.0 or higher” not 99 got all As.
Anonymous
06/05/2025 08:40
Subject: Do you do something special for your high schooler when they get straight As?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Paid them. Judge not, it works!
I didn’t. Two of mine have special needs and didn’t have the capacity to get good grades and the third had high internal drive. However, I did pay for correct spelling words in ES when it was the push that was needed to help one of them persevere in the endeavor to memorize them.
So for me, if your kid needs you to reward them in order to get good grades, then it’s a great idea if you can. But if not, a successful reporting period, whatever that means for your kids, is worth celebrating with ice cream or pizza.
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Special needs should be accommodated so they have the opportunity to earn As on appropriately leveled challenges.
It's OK if you want to challenge above and beyond and end up with some Bs (and you are lucky in a sense that you can do that while the straight A students cannot find appropriate challenges), but it shouldn't be required.
Anonymous
06/05/2025 08:26
Subject: Do you do something special for your high schooler when they get straight As?
We let them pick a restaurant for a celebratory dinner. (They usually pick something obnoxiously expensive.) We're still doing that for summer after each college year, too!
Anonymous
06/05/2025 07:30
Subject: Do you do something special for your high schooler when they get straight As?
Anonymous wrote:Paid them. Judge not, it works!
I didn’t. Two of mine have special needs and didn’t have the capacity to get good grades and the third had high internal drive. However, I did pay for correct spelling words in ES when it was the push that was needed to help one of them persevere in the endeavor to memorize them.
So for me, if your kid needs you to reward them in order to get good grades, then it’s a great idea if you can. But if not, a successful reporting period, whatever that means for your kids, is worth celebrating with ice cream or pizza.
Anonymous
06/05/2025 07:29
Subject: Do you do something special for your high schooler when they get straight As?
My parents tried cash rewards but it didn't work. My kids get straight As and they aren't any smarter than me so I figure that it's grade inflation.
Anonymous
06/05/2025 07:26
Subject: Do you do something special for your high schooler when they get straight As?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:FCCPS had 99/222 graduate with over 4.0 this year and bragged about it. So no, I would not do anything special for your kid with straight As. Grade inflation is everywhere.
https://mhs.fccps.org/o/mhs/article/2237777
good point, maybe I will just beat them when they don't get straight As
Are they counting A- also? My DD and her friends work hard for their grades at her FCPS high school, and it does not seem like everyone gets As easily.
Anonymous
06/05/2025 07:23
Subject: Do you do something special for your high schooler when they get straight As?
I believe it's traditional to say, "I got good grades, too."