@rickle1 Absolutely! I’m on a parents’ FB group for my daughter’s class and the number of freaked out parents’ after the first round of exams was crazy. Lots of comments of grading “not being fair to self esteem” and “tearing down good students”.
My daughter says the supplemental instructions and office hours are poorly attended and that so many students are already falling behind because they aren’t used to having to study. The other biggie is students not wanting to admit they need help. Like somehow there is a stigma to going to office hours.
One of the things that grade inflation is robbing students of is the ability to develop good study habits, and have some experience with working for those grades. We’re also setting kids up for horrible disappointment if they “gasp” get the mean on a college exam when they are in a program with students with the same level of smarts.