I see this sub-thread is getting heated, so maybe it's a good chance to clear our differences in understanding. First - Are you coming from a system where a st

I see this sub-thread is getting heated, so maybe it's a good chance to clear our differences in understanding. First - Are you coming from a system where a student's rank in class is ordered? In that situation, grades are a zero-sum game, where you may be fighting for Valedictorian status. In the US at least, such things have been a farce for at least 20 years, when I graduated we had 13 Salutatorians in a class of 200, what a joke. The weighted GPA is what matters, even if half the student body has a GPA over 3.5. Nobody here cares what your rank was. Second - As others have stated - the topic is about bringing the lower-graded students up, not bringing the higher-graded students down. Could you explain why you are reframing the topic?