Teachers opposed the new, more stringent, academic standards because some students who try hard still can't make the grade. Who do they think will be better served by pretending that the non-achievers succeed?
Fourteen valedictorians in one class, all with straight-A averages--boy, they must have a bunch of really smart kids in that school! Or is grade escalation simply another example of misguided feelgoodism?
"Excellence" is diminished when everyone excels.
We don't encourage excellence by rewarding mediocrity.
Modest rewards are just compensation for modest accomplishments.
When one receives only symbols as reward, one is likely to extend only a symbolic effort.
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