It is interesting that the local kerfuffle around AP grade inflation came hot on the heals of the pay-to-play admissions scandal. The grade inflation was exposed as it so often is: the no-work-straight-A kids took the AP exams and failed miserably. The parental terror is that this may eliminate all hope of getting a slot in one of their, or their child's, first choice schools. Now that you must earn your way in this is serious business.
Taken together these events say much, none of it good, about parents, children, schools and the entire education industry in America--and in your local neighborhood.
Taken together these events say much, none of it good, about parents, children, schools and the entire education industry in America--and in your local neighborhood.
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