[RealLifeMama]

I just looked it up, and I am pretty sure they are on a 10 point grade scale at the community college. I am glad, because this is the first "real" outside class he has taken. He did his other English classes in a class outside the house, but it was still just a homeschool class, even though the teacher assigned the grades, it was my choice to keep it. And his classes in co-op are still just homeschool classes. He has all A's except for math, so I was a little worried he would get a C or something and it would look funny on his transcript, and like I just made up all his other grades. This was a hard earned A. I am proud of him not because of the grade, because honestly, I don't care and he is not trying to get into a 4 year college anyway, but because he worked really hard and took advantage of free tutoring resources, emailed his teacher to ask questions, and attended some extra class meetings if the teacher offered them, all on his own initiative.

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Originally Posted by Soliloquy

The whole concept of grades has changed drastically over the generations. A C traditionally meant average. Most high school students would carry a 2.0ish GPA and didn't feel badly at all. A 4.0 was extremely rare and someone actually earning a 4.0 would make the newspaper.

Then our conceptions of grades changed and anything less than a B means the student didn't try. A student who tries their best and completes every assignment now expects at least a B-.

The purpose and expectation of education has changed (for the better, in my opinion).

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A meant excellent
B meant above average
C meant average
D meant below average
F meant failing

So the bell curve of performance had the majority of students earning C's.

Yes, this is so true! With some classes being weighted at 6points, you can easily get all C's and have a 4.0.

And honestly, if kids meet expectations, an A is expected.
It was like that when I taught school 20 years ago, too! I had so many parents complain when their kids got 80's on daily quizzes! (They were only 5 problems, given to see how the class was doing on learning the material so I would know what to reteach. It their entire quiz average was only like 10 percent of their final grade, and it as math, right or wrong. But they did not like getting 80's.