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Originally Posted by George O Well
on Saturday (the same high school I went to many years ago). The graduating class was 300 +/-. Of those 300 students, 60 had GPAs of 4.0 OR BETTER.
I mention this because when I graduated, my class had FOUR students with a 4.0 average (I wasn't one of them), and there were no advanced placement (AP) classes that could bring the GPA up above 4.0.
My question is this: was my graduating class dumber'n most, or has there been some small amount of grade creep over the years?
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Purely anecdotal but I'd say there has been some grade creep. A few years ago, went to the graduation of a buddys son. Small town Mo, they had like 72 kids graduating. Not sure of the GPA's but I remember being amazed when they announced that 60 of the kids had received scholarships of one kind or another!
Its a farming community so some of the scholarships were for agricultural studies...not a lot of money but still a scholarship. There were also 2 kids going to West Point and one going to Annapolis. I thought that was pretty unusual for such a small school.
My buddys son had a 3.6 and a scholarship. Good kid and smart in some things but some of the things he DIDN'T know were really scary. I had the same feeling then that grade creep had definitely had an effect.