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The A kids end up working for C kids. Generation Moron.
1 posted on 07/19/2017 5:54:35 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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To: ameribbean expat

Another tragic case of high self-esteem for no apparent reason.


2 posted on 07/19/2017 5:58:47 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Some people consider government to be a necessary evil, others their personal Ponzi scheme.)
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To: ameribbean expat

They graduate with A’s but still can’t write a coherent paragraph in their own language or solve a quadratic equation.


3 posted on 07/19/2017 5:58:47 PM PDT by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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To: ameribbean expat

The link does not work. Can you repost it?


4 posted on 07/19/2017 6:01:01 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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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.


5 posted on 07/19/2017 6:01:10 PM PDT by Bullish (May as well just rename Hollywood---> Hypocrite city)
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Wow...so many “A” students....yet, SAT scores are going down.

Hmmmmm.....maybe everyone shouldn’t get a trophy.


7 posted on 07/19/2017 6:02:31 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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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.


8 posted on 07/19/2017 6:03:56 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: ameribbean expat

“A” is for acssepshunal !


9 posted on 07/19/2017 6:04:11 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: ameribbean expat

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)


12 posted on 07/19/2017 6:06:25 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: ameribbean expat

School, college included, has become a participation trophy.


13 posted on 07/19/2017 6:08:51 PM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable!)
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It could also be that the kids with much lower averages don’t actually graduate. However, they would still take SATs or other tests.


14 posted on 07/19/2017 6:12:40 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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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.


19 posted on 07/19/2017 6:41:35 PM PDT by PCPOET7
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I can think of one MAJOR invention many of us here at FR DIDN'T HAVE back in our school days when we'd be forced to go all the way to the library when encountering problems with homework: INTERNET ACCESS & GOOGLE SEARCHES!

Because EVERYTHING CAN BE FOUND ON THE INTERNET, there is NO EXCUSE for a student to get anything LESS than straight A's in school these days. NONE.

Kids getting A's nowadays SHOULD BE PRACTICALLY EFFORTLESS AND NO BIG DEAL because of Internet access.

21 posted on 07/19/2017 6:50:57 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Feminism DESTROYED females)
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And yet it's the valedictorian who doesn't get the diploma for saying a prayer during the graduation speech.

-PJ

25 posted on 07/19/2017 6:55:11 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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Local schools can’t lose their accreditation or they lose their money, so keep the numbers up and give all those kids who got trophies for simply playing soccer an A.

Now, the real question. Who is behind this social psychology creating young adults who can’t handle reality and, and, ARE COMMITTING SUICIDE? Heroin/Opioid addicts...hmmm.

Those enforcing these policies should be jailed or at the least, lose their licenses.


27 posted on 07/19/2017 6:57:51 PM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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Of all the many jobs I’ve had in my life, never once did an employer in a job interview, ask what my grades were.

Employers want experience. They want drive.


32 posted on 07/19/2017 7:12:33 PM PDT by Daffynition (The New PTSD: PRESIDENT-Trump Stress Disorder” - The LSN didn’t make Trump, so they can’t break T)
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Can you say, “Students who have no business passing their high school classes are being passed due to teachers being threatened with disciplinary action if they don’t pass nearly every student”? That’s why the GPAs are so seemingly high. And when the “graduates” take the SATs, the rubber really hits the road and their true academic achievement level-—dismal as it is-—is revealed.


37 posted on 07/19/2017 7:23:36 PM PDT by EinNYC
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We must reverse this trend of ‘everyone gets a trophy’. ‘A’ averages are just another form of this phenomenon.

JoMa


41 posted on 07/19/2017 7:44:14 PM PDT by joma89
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I had a liberal teacher way back in the 70s who thought that everyone deserved an A. 75% of her class made the “honor roll”, no one failed that I know of.


43 posted on 07/19/2017 7:55:33 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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