GK>  MS> 2) College scholarships for anyone with "B" average?
GK>  MS>         Will this just guarantee that no HS teacher gives any 
GK> lower 
GK> grade
GK>  MS>         and intensify grade inflation, when few college-bound 
GK> kids get
GK>  MS>         low grades now?
GK> 
GK> This high school teacher will not buckle.  Personally, I'm pleased to 
GK> see 
GK> the President speaking on education.  It may or may not be rhetoric - 
GK> but 
GK> at least it's a start.
    Get ready for _heavy_ pressure to inflate grades if that scholarship 
program gets passed.  
    Every school district and every principal will seek to avoid like the 
plague the reputation that his district or school has fewer HS grads go to 
college than the next, and you will be in the same situation that my HS 
physics teacher was when a bunch of grossly-unqualified rich kids took his 
course and were risking not graduating by failing.  The principal leaned on 
him heavily so no country-club kid would not graduate.
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