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.
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 !
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.
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.
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.
-PJ
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.
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.
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.
We must reverse this trend of ‘everyone gets a trophy’. ‘A’ averages are just another form of this phenomenon.
JoMa
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.