<p>^My apologies. I was just referring to the general trend of public high schools being less rigorous than private high schools. As you know, public high schools are underfunded (and receive less overall funds) than private high schools - at least those public high schools that aren’t in affluent suburbs - and therefore are able to spend less per student. Because of this underfunding, better teachers aren’t drawn to these inner city or rural public high schools and as a result, students don’t get as high a quality of education. What they do get (and this was what happened at my school) are watered down versions of courses and a grade distribution heavily skewed towards the A. Compare this to a private prep school or affluent suburban high school where the quality of teachers is high - one school in my state boasts that 80% of its teachers have master’s or PhD’s, for Chrissakes. In these schools, they have the funding to impose a rigorous curriculum and the teachers are willing to do so.</p>