Grades should be based upon mastery of a well defined set of material or knowledge. Period. The operative word here is mastery.
I don’t want an Engineer or a cashier for that matter who calculates the correct answer 75% of the time.
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A great deal of the grade inflation is caused by parents who are trying to get their child accepted into good private schools who are then placing incredible pressure on High School for “good” grades to get there child into a good
college.
I believe the solution is for admissions to be based upon an entrance exam that is not watered down.
How can this be? The supposedly (and seemingly always) overworked and underpaid “educators” are cheating taxpayers and (more importantly) students. This MUST be false news.