Please note, this is not our April's Fools edition. Officials in Beaufort County, South Carolina have decided to institutionalize grade inflation by mandating that no student receive less than a 62 (out of 100) in the first semester of any class, so that students will not be prevented from passing the class if they improve in the second semester. "What we're trying to do is look at how can we send the message to students that we want them, number one, to be successful," deputy superintendent Edna Crews said. We doubt this method will send precisely that message.
"Beaufort County district limits poor grades," Charleston Post and Courier, August 18, 2003
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