I can't imagine anyone who has gone through school and thought that grades were somehow an "absolute" measure of quality. It's quite clear that grades are relat

I can't imagine anyone who has gone through school and thought that grades were somehow an "absolute" measure of quality. It's quite clear that grades are relative to both the standard of your fellow students and the current academic standards for your school. The whole idea of a "grade" is to sort the relative quality of various things or people, and that is what they are supposed to do. The problem comes when people start to THINK they are an absolute measure of worth, and thus believe that they are entitled to an "A" because they worked hard. Never mind that everyone else worked hard too, and some of them performed better.