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Exorciststeps wrote:It's fascinating to witness the level of anxiety among upper middle class parents that stems from the observation that their children may, from time to time, encounter situations that are not absolutely fair in all respects and/ or that are outside their control.

Particularly when one considers that these children have already won the birth lottery.

Yes, it’s all luck and the government must do everything to correct things against the lucky.

The child is def lucky.

Or it’s parent’s are really smart.

Which means the kid is lucky.

Nah. Hard work, good planning and execution by mom and dad is irrelevant to the child. They are the byproduct or offspring of such things. Luck had nothing to do with it. You are too passive in your thinking.

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Exorciststeps wrote:It's fascinating to witness the level of anxiety among upper middle class parents that stems from the observation that their children may, from time to time, encounter situations that are not absolutely fair in all respects and/ or that are outside their control.

Particularly when one considers that these children have already won the birth lottery.

Yes, it’s all luck and the government must do everything to correct things against the lucky.

The child is def lucky.

Or it’s parent’s are really smart.

Which means the kid is lucky.

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Exorciststeps wrote:It's fascinating to witness the level of anxiety among upper middle class parents that stems from the observation that their children may, from time to time, encounter situations that are not absolutely fair in all respects and/ or that are outside their control.

Particularly when one considers that these children have already won the birth lottery.

Yes, it’s all luck and the government must do everything to correct things against the lucky.

The child is def lucky.

Or it’s parent’s are really smart.

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Anonymous wrote:Holton Arms

You must be kidding me! The average GPA at Holton is A-

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Anonymous wrote:ITYM "best grade deflation".

Kids learn a lot more if the grades are harder to obtain, and, over the long term, they're going to be less stressed out. Not going to off yourself over a C at Princeton if you had a D in English 10.

You think a kid with a D in high school is getting into Princeton?

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Exorciststeps wrote:It's fascinating to witness the level of anxiety among upper middle class parents that stems from the observation that their children may, from time to time, encounter situations that are not absolutely fair in all respects and/ or that are outside their control.

Particularly when one considers that these children have already won the birth lottery.

Yes, it’s all luck and the government must do everything to correct things against the lucky.

The child is def lucky.

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Exorciststeps wrote:It's fascinating to witness the level of anxiety among upper middle class parents that stems from the observation that their children may, from time to time, encounter situations that are not absolutely fair in all respects and/ or that are outside their control.

Particularly when one considers that these children have already won the birth lottery.

Yes, it’s all luck and the government must do everything to correct things against the lucky.

Exorciststeps wrote:It's fascinating to witness the level of anxiety among upper middle class parents that stems from the observation that their children may, from time to time, encounter situations that are not absolutely fair in all respects and/ or that are outside their control.

Particularly when one considers that these children have already won the birth lottery.

Anonymous wrote:ITYM "best grade deflation".

Kids learn a lot more if the grades are harder to obtain, and, over the long term, they're going to be less stressed out. Not going to off yourself over a C at Princeton if you had a D in English 10.

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Anonymous wrote:There absolutely a way to do grade deflation in STEM. In many STEM subjects, but especially math, all that is needed is to add 2, 5, 10 or more problems/questions that deal with material not yet covered in class but that can be said “logically flow” from that things that were. My kids get that on every STEM class that take. The classes are hard enough but when you throw PhD level questions on top, 96s become 82s very quickly.

PhD level questions? Pull the other one...

Am sorry your kids are underserved.

My kid is at TJ, but they have yet to report any "PhD level questions" on their tests...

That’s because public school teachers have some degree of accountability which does not exist at private schools.

At STA we have teachers who give 1/2 the class C’s by testing on material they haven’t taught. There’s no accountability for bad teaching or bad testing.

What PP is referring to as PhD level problems are stupid questions that go way beyond what was covered in class that the boys are supposed to solve under timed test conditions.

Students compensate for bad teaching by getting outside help. If you’re on FA and can’t afford it, you’re SOL.

This is not accurate about STA. The work is manageable for the student willing to put in the effort.

Agree that STA is very manageable. My son took rigorous classes, had many of the teachers known to be difficult and did really well. The boys who struggle often don't do the work or try and cut corners.

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Anonymous wrote:As the parent of a recent St. Anselm's grad, I'm surprised to see it getting multiple nominations on this chain. It's hard to fall out of the 90s in many classes there and pretty straightforward to hit that mark in most of the others. There are only a couple of classes where it's actually a struggle to finish with an 'A' for most of the boys there.

How easy is the grading at other schools?

As another parent of a recent grad I think you’re smoking crack. AP Chem, ethics with alspaugh, calc and AP bio… it’s not easy at all to get A’s and for the kids that do consistently get A’s I know several of them and they work hard for them.

+1 But congrats to PP's kid! It's not at all hard to fall out of the 90s and once you do, that's it.

Dramatic much? You make it sound like a B is terminal

If you want to go to UVA, you better not have any Bs.