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Apparently you haven’t been listening to

I have and you are nothing but a whiner

 

Average JEH Whatcha Say?

 

I hope all the teams turn into the Browns--making dumb moves-WHY ---WHY---WHY--BECAUSE

 

EVERYONE EXCEPT

 

I have seen a few articles about how Colleges are mandating grades no lower than a C, so A, B, C today is like A/B, C, D/F of 30 years ago. The reason, college prices has SOARED to the stratosphere and College brass want to keep those forking over wheelbarrows full of cash happy, so dumbo kid that can barely read gets a B in English, or can barely do basic math gets a C in Calculus, etc.

So, its really hard to not laugh when parents boast about their kids' 3.4 GPA at Podunk U. That's probably the equivalent of 2.2 in my time and on probation/warning.

In high school, kids are getting 4.5 GPAs...college coarses and I can tell you they're not valedictorian material. Something is amiss in High School grading too, but it can't be money, well, it can, but not directly from the family this time, indirectly from taxpayers.

 

[/QUOTE] Just think... if Tomlin had a "losing season" or two.... he'd probably still be coaching. [/QUOTE]

Probably, he'd be on his third or fourth team as a retread.

The Dolphins or Jets would have just hired him and talked about getting an "All-time great" while he leads them to 15 wins in 3 years and moves on to his fifth team...though, mercifully, at the high school level in northwest North Dakota.

 

Calculus is a high school course.

 

Yes, for advanced HS kids, but primarily a college course.

I took FIVE Calculus classes in college, Calc 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 and Differential Equations (this was a quarterly system). This was required to become an Electrical Engineer.

 

There is a shrinking pool of college applicants every year. Colleges, at almost all levels, are less selective than every before on their admissions standards. High School GPA is mattering less and less.

Once you are in, grades really are not all that important. No one working at the university really cares what your GPA is. Most employers do not care what your GPA was....just that you have the degree when you finish.

College costs have soared because of many complex reasons. The biggest being that administration costs are ridiculous, taxpayer funding has been slashed, and students want insane amenities that cost schools knee-buckling sums of money. But, since there are less students, the schools need to do it to stay competitive.

Least that is my take from a couple of decades working in higher ed. Your experience, local setting, and mileage may vary.