Posted on 07/19/2017 5:54:35 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
Nearly half of American high school students—47%, to be exact—are graduating with grades ranging from A+ to A-, according to a study released this week. The report, coauthored by a member of the SAT-administering College Board and a doctoral student of higher education, found that while high-school students’ average GPAs have soared, SAT scores have slipped noticeably over the past decade.
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Another tragic case of high self-esteem for no apparent reason.
They graduate with A’s but still can’t write a coherent paragraph in their own language or solve a quadratic equation.
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Today’s A+ is equivalent to a 1960 C+ grade. They’ve dumbed down all the teachers, that’s all that this amounts to.
Or write or read cursive.
Wow...so many “A” students....yet, SAT scores are going down.
Hmmmmm.....maybe everyone shouldn’t get a trophy.
Grade inflation creep is insidious and helps nobody; however, I am willing to bet the manse, that these kids would struggle to get a C on any 8th grade test from the 1950s.
“A” is for acssepshunal !
GMTA
And the SATs have been SO dumbed down, that middle school kids from the ‘50s and early ‘60s could have gotten perfect scores.
At college graduations I see that about a third graduate with some sort of honor, and many many people graduate summa cum laude.
You would expect a bell curve of some sort for grades, except in Lake Wobegon where they are all above average (everyone in Lake Wobegon is a liberal)
School, college included, has become a participation trophy.
It could also be that the kids with much lower averages don’t actually graduate. However, they would still take SATs or other tests.
I had a score of at least 12 on my S.A.T.’s and I have designed and built bridges.
The students who failed my class lacked the work ethic required to pass calculus I. I have helped many weak math students pass calculus I, but those students worked hard. Last semester I had over 10 after class study sessions, but few students attended.
was never a good student as a kid struggled to just graduate high school. no one would of been doing me any favors by lowering the standards like they have done today. I barley graduated but I have a feeling that today if I was a high school student my Ds and Cs would be Cs and Bs... as a horrible student it would not of been good for me at all if they not forced me to work for my c grade.
GEEEZ! Given The Modern American School System....
NONE Of Them Have Heard Of a quadratic equation.
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