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Re: Grading



At 3:42 PM -0700 1/6/2000, Jim Green wrote:
This grade inflation thread has migrated approximately to a question of how
college grades affect employment. That wasn't the original question: may I
please restate it:

The local _middle school_ has placed on the order of 40-50% of the students
(depending on class) on its honor roll with greater than a GPA of 3.6. The
principal says that the criteria derives from teacher expectations. And
typically some 20% of those students have received a GPA of 4.00.

I hope you have written to your local newspaper editor about this outrage.

Larry