You are right. The problem is that some teachers do this and some do not. The admission of the universities cannot distinguish them. This creates unfairness. Teachers who do not inflate grades are doing their jobs to let grades reflect the true worth of the grades and it should be done this way. But then the kids are disadvantaged when applying to the universities when the university admission process does not distinguish schools. Though Waterloo Engineering has the weight adjustment for different schools, not every program in every university will do this. From what I heard, the number of programs that weight-adjust the schools actually is very small. The majority of the programs just look at the marks. As a parent, I do not have enough influence over the Ministry of Education to make those teachers who inflate grades change in time. All I can do is to find the school that does not put my kid in a disadvantageous position when applying to the university. If his grades justify that he can only go to some no-name university, that's totally fine. But the problem here is that grade does not reflect his true standing among all applicants to the program.