MS>     Get ready for _heavy_ pressure to inflate grades if 
 MS> that scholarship program gets passed.  
 MS>     Every school district and every principal will seek 
 MS> to avoid like the plague the reputation that his 
 MS> district or school has fewer HS grads go to college 
 MS> than the next, and you will be in the same situation 
 MS> that my HS physics teacher was when a bunch of grossly-
 MS> unqualified rich kids took his course and were risking 
 MS> not graduating by failing.  The principal leaned on 
 MS> him heavily so no country-club kid would not graduate.
I'm sure there are exceptions, but our school is not like that - really.  We 
have our share of honor and AP students who can handle this all by 
themselves.  We just made Blue Ribbon again, and it's not because we inflate 
grades.  Our kids manage to get the grades on their own merit, and then they 
really go on and hold their own in college.
I'm pleased with President Clinton, and very happy he's giving a challenge to 
education.
GK
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