more easily. Student go to high school at good independent schools to get a strong basis then they switch schools to public high schools for grade 11 and 12 to get higher marks. The reality is that we don't know exactly how to compare an let's say 85% from one high school to an 85% from another high school. The admission into university system based almost only on the high school marks for the credit courses is deeply flawed and triggers these kind of games. It would be reasonably easy and much more correct and objective to have admission to university be exam or test based. Then nobody would care much about high school marks;students would care about how much they learn and how prepared they get. Instead of avoiding good teachers that have higher standards our kids would flock to their classes because it would be in their own best interest. This run to the bottom, to the courses that are the easiest or taught by the teacher that gives higher marks would end. The "diploma mills" will dissapear, and the high school students will concentrate on learning more instead of trying to game the system or pleading and begging with their teachers to give them higher marks -- which by the way I understand happens quite frequently and I find profoundly disgusting and disturbing -. Mr.Doug give me a break. It is not the quality of your teachers -- cerified or not -- that gets the students at