GRADE INFLATION

I get what you're saying, but I have another way to describe it. We were actually talking about this topic in another one of my classes; we were talking about how the "median grade" is set too high. What I mean by that is that a 70 isn't where the bar is set grade wise. It should be that a 70 is the average grade that students should get, and students should get grades within 10 points of that margin. Instead, the accepted grade baseline seems to be around a 90 as if teachers have made everything easier so that students will meet that mark. Where does this come from? like you said, the better students do in the teacher's classroom, the better the teachers look; the better the teachers look, the better the school looks. I'm living proof of this theory, a little background (believe it or not) I'm one of the top students in my class, and have SAT and ACT test scores that rank in the 99th percentile nationwide. I've never spent more than an hour and a half either studying or doing homework in my high school career. The material we are taught seems to be a considerably dumbed down version of the actual concept, and apart from most math classes, all it takes is some simple improvising to get a very good grade. Don't get me wrong though, I've worked really hard in school, but I really didn't need to, and the school system seems to be designed to urge bad habits. Procrastination, doing things at 50%, forgetting assignments, it seems like that's all the system teaches us to do. And the curriculum has become so grade oriented that I feel like it has been dumbed down a bit.