@MyNewtBoobs The way I heard this case, it was, “American kids almost never get a 6 in any class at my school. American kids at most get like a 4. Only the Asian kids who do nothing but study get a 6. But (an American) got a 6…”. And, “The school acts like it is this great, serious, hard prep school where all the kids have to be really smart and work a lot. But it’s really not that good or hard, and there is a ton of sex and drugs going on all the time. And there is a huge double-standard where some mostly-good kids get expelled for getting caught sneaking out past curfew, but others get caught with cocaine and get to stay, because their parents give a lot of money to the school.”
In this (depraved) context, it seemed to me that having the grades possible to go up to 6, might be getting 4’s and then talking about how they are 4.0 students, even though that isn’t even the highest grade, but people used to a 4-point grading system might likely assume that a 4 was the highest grade. Which seemed like a weird crass way to accomplish grade inflation to me, which would be fairly consistent with the other travesties I know about the school’s unfair and corrupt record and apparent mission to make rich donors’ children be attractive to colleges even though they are corrupt druggies whose academics really aren’t that great..