As school was really starting to pick up, about halfway through first quarter, Principal McMacfin, informed us that he is unsure about some seemingly harsh grades. The average GPA has significantly decreased since last year. He asked us to go get two stellar students, named Junior and Senior to ask them about what they are experiencing.

First, Principal McMacfin asked them what they were experiencing in their chemistry classes. Junior and Senior supposedly both responded with an insightful answer of “I don’t know. I’m getting bad grades.” With this extremely helpful answer, we quickly came to the conclusion that there is more to this story. Next, we asked Junior and Senior about the actual testing that their teachers are giving. They both said their tests seem pretty easy, but they receive terrible grades on them. The first solution we thought of was that maybe the teachers were just having a rough year so far and were just grading harsher. We then asked if we could interview some of Junior’s and Senior’s teachers ourselves. After the first interview with both of their chemistry teachers, Mr. Don and Mrs. Ron, there wasn’t much to think that was fishy. Except for the terrible smell of fish coming from the biology class next door, as bio students were dissecting it. 

“When is this interview over? I gotta go play Fortnite.”

We interviewed each of their five other teachers, and they all gave a different story. Each teacher said a variety of things. We listed below the most insightful responses that we took away from just five of their teachers:

1. The first teacher said, “The students just aren’t trying hard enough”.
2. The second said, “The only reason they are getting bad grades is because they aren’t doing their homework.”
3. The third said, “I confess to being a harder grader recently”
4. The fourth said, “I have no idea what you guys are talking about”. This was the same teacher who has fishy smells coming from his classroom.
5. The fifth, well, screamed at us and said, “THIS IS MY LUNCH BREAK”.

Our detective team put all the little pieces together of each story(which didn’t match at all), and we came to a decision that there was a grade deflation plot going on, as we saw that the teachers all seemed to be hiding something with how they graded. It involved all 12 of Junior’s and Senior’s teachers. Each teacher was arrested by the strongest powerlifters on the powerlifting team and they were subsequently sentenced to 3 years in the art gallery, with their phones in the phone jail, by a special tribunal of Student Council Representatives.

Here’s some additional side evidence that we gathered to make sure there was a grade deflation plot based on: some interviews with the juniors who were also in Junior and Senior’s class, who were also interviewed. However we didn’t use this evidence too much because we realized we had already interviewed these kids. They said things like, “You guys are terrible detectives. When is this interview over? I gotta go play Fortnite.” Clearly, the students are extremely relieved and happy that we got to the bottom of this and they all are capable of getting good grades now.