Are grades in your school shared?

[~Mi Vida Loca~RN]

Maybe not by identifying the person, but are the class grades shared with everyone? Our school they are not, for 2 tests in our second semester their was a graph with the average and how many people got what in a 5 or 3 percent region.(I can't remember exactly what the span was but it was under 5) IE: 6 people got 70-75% on the little chart. Their was always one that had 100% though and the number of students was one more then we had. Well a student asked an instructor if the 100% was the Key and apparently the graph wasn't supposed to be up there and they removed it. So out of 1 year and many classes we have never known what the class got except those 2 tests.

I see posts on here though always talking like people know exactly what grade everyone got. So I was curious if grades are shared with everyone or if people are just going off what they have heard.

Sometimes I wish the graph was back up again (I admit for selfish reasons) but at the same time it's not a big deal because at the end of the day it's my grade I am worried about the most. Our teachers feel their is no benefit for grades to be shared so that is why they don't share them.

[happy2learn]

My school uses blackboard and you can see the average grade of the class on every assignment and test.

This quarter has been very interesting when it comes to the average. My fiance is in Macroeconomics (for culinary) and the average grade in his class is a 50%- as in FAIL. He's not, thank God! In my Psych class I can see that the average grade in my class is 60%, another fail. That's a real encouragement when you are assigned to a group project with a bunch of people who are failing. Of course, you can only hope that a few are just completely failing and the rest are doing average! (cross my fingers)

I only tell a few people my grades, my partners in A&P. I only tell them if they ask, but I never ask because I really don't care. We all get about the same grades. But if people I don't talk to on a regular basis asked me, I would just say I did good.