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Why would anyone expect them not to mean anything? And what's with the Amazon link?

• tokenadult 17y ago
  How can the grading standards of one high school possibly be linked with the grading standards of more than 10,000 other high schools around the country, many of which will be in different states with different state-regulated curricula? Why should anyone expect a grade of A from a northern Virginian high school to be at all comparable with a grade of A from rural Mississippi, for example? The link in my previous reply (parent to your reply) is to a book about the arbitrary nature of grades in American schools. For more than a generation, researchers have known that there isn't any standard comparable from one school to the next for how grades are issued.