High school grades just seem to be fake at this point.

My kid and his friends, who graduate this year, never had homework, yet they all have 90%+ grades.

When I was growing up, you might have had one kid in the class with over a 90 in any given subject, and they worked their ass off every waking hour.

Now? 20 minutes of 'work' a day and they're acing the class. This doesn't benefit their future at all.

More parents realising they can push teachers to give their students higher marks. Even in elementary school I see parents pushing for higher marks and teachers give in because they don't want to argue and make their job harder.

Grade inflation does no one any good. Teachers deal with enough from parents without needing to try and argue why their child doesn't, in fact, deserve 95% instead of 75%.

The only way I can see forward is to improve the push back against parents by the school board/administrators so the teachers feel they can refuse without the parents just going around them and getting what they want.

Let's not devolve into the US college admissions system where grades are irrelevant and people only care about extracurriculars, please.

I'm just really glad when I went through high school none of this was a thing. You worked hard and earned success, or you slacked off and suffered the consequences. Or you fell somewhere in-between as appropriate.

Our society has made it taboo to tell students the (sometimes) hard truth about where they stand, so that they can be aware of what they need to work on to improve. This fear of hurting feelings and this need to make everyone feel like a winner has stifled the drive and motivation that could manifest from the want to do better and prove yourself.

Deciding to work hard is, has been, and will always be a personal choice, but instead of encouraging that, we're just trying to make everyone feel happy about themselves the way they are. That's good for people's mental health, but it's harmful for long-term success. Those that would never put in the work in any case, never will. So at least create an environment where those that would can thrive. That's what I think anyway.