Parents got suckered into these High School programs for $10,000 or more a year. For that price, parents demand A grades for their idiot kids, so they get them. The kids do not deserve them, but they get them.
As an engineering manager my final job interviews required passing about an eighth grade comprehensive test just to apply. I was told it was because grades transcripts and resumes were all assumed to be fake or inflated.
Indeed. Had a client a couple of years back— a private boarding school in Southern California (not the REAL California...). A boutique affair, targeted at the ‘horsey’ set. Annual cost? A little over $70,000. For High School. Pretty sure all the students do quite well, thank you.