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Grade inflation is a rising issue that is affecting college admissions and job opportunities. Limited spots in medical school are becoming increasingly competitive due to the high number of students with high grades and success rates. Grade inflation is defined as a rise in average grades assigned to students, and it has been steadily increasing over the years. This trend is concerning because it creates a skewed and untrustworthy data field, making it unfair for students to be compared. The COVID-19 pandemic has further exacerbated grade inflation, as teachers changed their grading methods to accommodate struggling learners. As a result, students have become reliant on grade curves and changes, leading to laziness and a lack of care for learning. This has detrimental effects on their ability to develop life skills and effectively communicate with teachers. In the long run, grade inflation will heavily impact employment prospects, as employers often prioritize grades when evaluating ca Hi, and welcome back to Education Daily with Natalie. I'm currently in 8th grade and looking forward to a career in the medical field, if I can ever get to medical school. Recently, I was sitting at a meeting at J. Sarah and the question of grade inflation arose. I've always been an overachiever and someone who strives for perfection. Grades have always been a big part of my life. So, today I'll be talking about how grade inflation is affecting college admissions and job opportunities down the road. Throughout my life, I've always wanted to be a pediatrician or a pediatric surgeon. As the years go on, getting into medical school is becoming almost impossible. There are such limited spots for a high amount of student attention. And this is greatly due to the high number of students who are fit or look as if they're fit for these programs. They have high grades, high success rates, and look like they would thrive in the medical school environment. This brings me to the bigger problem, grade inflation. By definition, grade inflation is a rise in the average grade assigned to students. This means that teachers or school can raise the average grades of students. This problem is quickly on the rise. The average high school GPA increased 0.19 grade points from 3.17 in 2010 to 3.36 in 2021. With the greatest inflation occurring between 2018 and 2021. There have been changes in every area of our lives and we need to stand strong in one of the areas. We can't let the education system change and change how we learn, what we learn, and how our knowledge is shown. The inflation of grades has been going up over time and we need to stop it now. According to an article I found about the impacts of grade inflation, grades represent one's aptitude for creating the material combined with diligence and timeliness. This is very interesting to me because being as though grade inflation curves and changes the grades depending on the school you go to or even the classes you're in, there will be a skewed data field which is majorly untrustworthy. If grades show colleges and future employers diligence and timeliness, but yet one school completely curves and changes all grades differently, students are unfairly compared. This is not authentic or true. I found that grade inflation became especially apparent in 2020 and 2021. In some cases, the rate of grade inflation increased substantially during those years. Many people are attributing these changes directly to COVID and the pandemic. I believe that grade inflation began increasing in COVID because learners were struggling and didn't know how to do the material they were learning. Because of this, many of the teachers and educators were changing the way they were grading to ensure that others thought their students were still learning and that it still looked like they were competent in the material. This caused it to evolve over time a lot and it changed into something that is commonly done and used as a tool. I have continued to dig deeper into this topic and explore more in-depth effects of this change in our education system. I have found that as a result of this change, students are relying on the curves and the changes to give them good grades and the inflation is no longer used for good at all. It just allows students to be lazy and to not care about what they're learning because they know that their grades will be curved. Going into college, these students need the life skills. They need to learn lessons from their experiences and they're losing major chances of communicating with teachers, asking for help, and advocating for themselves because they're simply being pushed along the way with their grade inflation and they have no pressure or stress because of the security they felt. They're going to go into college and be totally unaware of what a real school experience is like. As you go farther down the road into the first job, internship, or interview, that's what's going to be affected the most because in the face of employment, the thing that employers will first look at is your grades. If they're comparing someone who was not at school with grade inflation to someone who is, then they're going to look way less of a candidate because the person next to them is going to have higher grades. It's going to look like they're more diligent or more timely because that's what those things are showing them. Really, this problem of grade inflation is affecting every single person, not just those who are being...