Would you give the Council of Trent an A? Maybe an A plus. Well, be careful because maybe if you do that,

you're going to contribute to the problem of grade inflation. It feels like everything's inflating

nowadays, right? Price of eggs, price of bread, price of cars. Now, and grades are being inflated,

which is not a good thing when people spend a bunch of money because when something's inflated, it becomes its price more than it's worth. And when you spend a bunch

money on a degree and you go and get your grades, if your grades aren't worth anything, well, then

why did you even go there in the first place? That's what we're talking about today here on the

Council of Trent. Mondays and Wednesdays, we talk apologetics and theology. But on Fridays, you

talk about whatever I want to talk about. And today I was reading an article by Scott Yanor. He is the

senior director of state coalitions for the Claremont Institute Center for the American Way of

Life. He's also a professor of political science at Boise State University. And the article he published is

called Solving the Grade Inflation Problem. GPA creep is a national University. And the article he published is called solving the grade inflation problem.

GPA creep is a national scandal. It requires a national solution. And I think that's something if you

think about it, if you ask your parents, your grandparents about what grades they got in school,

you probably find it's a lot different than it is nowadays. Now, you go back

50 years. Like if you took a class, the idea was that, okay, like to get an A in a class, like, oh,

I got an A in calculus. I got an A in English honors. That meant you were the top 10% smartest people in that class to be able to get

that A. Maybe half of you, or maybe three, only half of you got a C or above. It was like a bell

curve, right? And graded on a curve, that means people who are the bottom performers would fail,

usually. Or at the very least,

getting a B or an A meant that you were exceptional, that the average student in the class got

like a C, because that C means average, and you got an average grade, and A's were something that

were rare. But it turns out, but A's and B's are just not that rare anymore.

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