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<blockquote data-quote="Jalopy" data-source="post: 810335" data-attributes="member: 7856"><p>The topic on schools got me o thinking of schools and one of my concerns. Grade inflation. I know we should be cocerned with self esteem of students but making everyone pass is ridiculous. As an example thehonor role in our high school is listed eaxh quarter in the local news rag. Of the 300 kids in high school over 150 were on the semester honor role with over a 3point average based on a 4 point system. I know that is only 50% but it means that 50% are doing work in the top 25 percentile. I know we have have smart kids and a good faculty but that just doesn't seem right. And I do not know when a student was held back in a grade level in orde to grasp the material expected. Instead they are passed on up the ladder to be in the same social group they started in. So what happens when they get to graduate and then they meet real life? In reality which is helping their self esteem most?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jalopy, post: 810335, member: 7856"] The topic on schools got me o thinking of schools and one of my concerns. Grade inflation. I know we should be cocerned with self esteem of students but making everyone pass is ridiculous. As an example thehonor role in our high school is listed eaxh quarter in the local news rag. Of the 300 kids in high school over 150 were on the semester honor role with over a 3point average based on a 4 point system. I know that is only 50% but it means that 50% are doing work in the top 25 percentile. I know we have have smart kids and a good faculty but that just doesn't seem right. And I do not know when a student was held back in a grade level in orde to grasp the material expected. Instead they are passed on up the ladder to be in the same social group they started in. So what happens when they get to graduate and then they meet real life? In reality which is helping their self esteem most? [/QUOTE]
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