DC suburban parents battle grade deflation

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<p>To the grade grubbers go the spoils. And the grade grubbers in this case are rabble-rousing parents in Virginia's Fairfax County. Residents of the high-powered Washington suburb have been battling the school district's tough grading practices; chief among their complaints is that scoring a 93 gets recorded as a lowly B+. After forming an official protest group last year called Fairgrade and goading the school board into voting on whether to ease the standards, parents marshaled 10,000 signatures online and on Jan. 22 gathered nearly 500 supporters to help plead their case. After two hours of debate, the school board passed a resolution, a move critics consider a defeat in the war on grade inflation.</p>

<p>Virginia</a> Parents Fight for Easier Grading Standards - TIME</p>

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<p>Why don't they just record the numerical average? That way, an 83 would be an 83, and a 91 would be a 91, and a 76 would be a 76. I guess that would be too easy. Much better to have a weighted scale 0 - 5.0 that somehow maps to letter grades with pluses and minuses. Let's have meetings for hours and argue about it and hire lawyers and take the bureaucrats to court... yeah, let's do that.</p>

<p>oops... these D.C. suburbs are in Virginia, as in dupe thread.</p>