if kids are to accept failure then they must be given room to fail.  Your average highschool student wanting to go to a good university cannot accept any failure.  Bomb a single test and your math grade will slip from the 98% that assures acceptance and the 95% that doesn&#x27;t.  The grade inflation needs to stop.<p>My unpopular answer: more standardized testing.  Don&#x27;t grade homework.  Don&#x27;t grade the science projects.  Grade only those things done by the student alone in an exam room.  I know that doesn&#x27;t remove all parental influence, but at least then the parents aren&#x27;t the ones holding pen to the paper.