[Soliloquy]

Originally Posted by RealLifeMama

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.

Yes, I had parents who were so mad at me that their child didn't get an A even though they turned in every homework assignment. On many of the assignments they wrote some random number for their answer and showed no work at all. So they got a 0 on many assignments and did poorly on the tests because they hadn't learned the material. But since they "turned in all their work" they thought they deserved an A.