Two straight A students? You would think that both would recognize there is no point in fighting over a boy. Such a sad story for the murdered girl’s loved ones.
I of course don't know, but suspect some sort of grading curve might have been involved here.
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Occasionally, student performance is lower than expected on a test. Instructors can choose to modify the student scores to equalize the scores.
A simple method for curving grades is to add the same amount of points to each student’s score.
A common method: Find the difference between the highest grade in the class and the highest possible score and add that many points.
Example: Curve a test score
If the highest percentage grade in the class was 88%, the difference is 12%. You can add 12 percentage points to each student’s test score.
If the test is worth 50 points and the highest score is 48 points, the difference is 2 points. You can add 2 points to each student’s test score.
You can curve grades in Blackboard Learn in two ways:
Method 1: In the Original Course View, download the test’s Grade Center column, apply the appropriate curving calculations in a spreadsheet program, and upload the resulting grades into a new Grade Center column.
Method 2: Manually override each student’s original test grade.
https://help.blackboard.com/Learn/Instructor/Grade/Grading_Tasks/Curve_Grades
“Two straight A students? You would think that both would recognize there is no point in fighting over a boy.”
Since ZERO students in that school met math target goals, I am a little suspect of those grades ...
Two straight A students? 25 years ago there was an article in the Chicago Tribune about the valedictorian and egalitarian from a Chicago high school both went to Malcolm X JC. The college put them in remedial math and eng!ish courses because they were not prepared for college level work.
Grades are relative . Intelligence and grades don’t have to follow the same path.
Not such a happy story for the murdered girl, either.
Let’s not forget the actual victim instead of focusing (as the propaganda media wants us to) on the living impacted by the crime. Their goal is to make us think less of the victim so that we think less of the perpetrator and turn our focus to those associated with the victim as a sort of “collective” perspective on what the propaganda media wants to turn into more of a hypothetical situation than an actual crime.
By turning crime into “reality TV” and making it hypothetical, the propaganda media is better able to soften our views (and conviction and punishment) of the perpetrator. It also shifts our focus away from the Left’s involvement in the spiking of violent crime coupled with the diminishing respect for human life brought on by the entire suite of their socio-political world view and political agenda.
In today's educational climate, plus being Michigan, that's not particularly remarkable.
“Straight A” in a mostly black school is about a C- to D everywhere else.