Time to brag a little again and to put things in perspective too.
As you are aware, I like to brag about how our students are doing. Unfortunately, due to some of the laws of the host nation I cannot truly explain why the grades of our students are so much to brag about. Here they use a different grading scale and when I have tried to raise our standard at my previous site to something more like the rest of the world, I was told they would only ever use the government scale. At my current site they have adopted our use of the grading scale for most developed countries, though we are required to still report to the government using their grading scale. In fact, when I post grades for all the standard classes and for highest level of Pre-Unity, I write the Tanzanian grade and then the grade they would get using the grading scale I grew up with (the basic 10 points per grade starting at 60 for passing). I have been proud that the kids strive to get good grades on my scale to the point I have started providing awards f...