New A grade doesn’t add up

I enjoyed your article on Jeopardy player Andre Kreitz (“Who is Andrew Kreitz?” Feb. 16), but I did a double-take when I saw his grade point average at Huntington Beach High: 4.56. Isn’t a 4.0 a perfect A-average? It was the best you could get when I graduated from high school, and out of 800 seniors there was one 4.0, our class valedictorian. (It wasn’t me: I graduated 35th and barely had a 3.5.) It all points to the ridiculous grade inflation at high schools where A grades are handed out like candy mints and they have to invent some new math to distinguish the best students. It would be nice if standards could be tightened so that an A grade meant something again.

TOM CHAMBERS

Huntington Beach