<p>From CNN Education Page story on high school students’ survey</p>
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<p>Correlation between the two? I might be bored if it was so easy to get an A as well. </p>
<p>Is there a correlation between “dummed down” classes and the fact that so many students need to go to a local college when they are in high school to get classes that they need or be stimulated intellectually?</p>
<p>O.K. maybe they were “fibbing” and they really didn’t have an A average in high school. Maybe that was it…</p>
<p>I’m going to hazard a guess that this is an example of the trickling down of grade inflation from higher ed. Colleges and universities would like to boast about the number of graduates who are accepted into competitive graduate/professional schools. To accomplish that goal, these graduates need high GPAs. For high schools to do the equivalent, their graduates also need competitive grades.</p>
<p>Also, I’m assuming that this was a random sample of college freshmen. One possible “skewer” of the facts would be that survey respondents might also be boasting about their accomplishments. Perhaps not as many of the students with below-A averages did not respond?</p>
<p>As for the boredom, college freshmen may be remembering their last semester of high school during which they were anticipating going to college. Perhaps they truly were bored, but I doubt if it were from lack of intellectual stimuation in the classroom. They probably were daydreaming about what they would do in college–senioritis.</p>
<p>Just one person’s take.</p>