What about the number of kids who get into Yale? Or Stanford? Or Cal Tech? Or Swarthmore, Amherst, Williams, Haverford, and other liberal arts schools? What about the number of kids who get into the college they actually want to go to? What about at least making a gesture toward measuring some aspect of what the students learn?
It's more ridiculous than the public school letter grade system, and that's saying something. (Public school letter grades are based more on improvement than on actual performance, so an excellent school that merely remains excellent can get a D, while a terrible school that shoots up to subpar can get an A.) I have friends who teach in "A" schools who say they would never send their own kids to those schools.
Isn't our educational system burdened enough by our obsession with scores and ranking?
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