Spanish 1- A
English 2 Honors- A
Biology Honors- A
Drama 1- A
World History Honors- A
New Media- A
Geometry Honors- A
I'm still surprised at my own grades, regardless of how I call myself a genius all the time.  

So pretty much this is a thread to pad the egos of people with good grades.  

Posted by Imprint

So pretty much this is a thread to pad the egos of people with good grades.

I really only posted here because I needed an ego boost, so yeah.  

Tech=A

Science=A

English=A-

Algebra=B+

Science=B+

Band=A  

Posted by Blueh

How do you manage to get anything below an A- in PE? All you have to do is dress up and pretend like you're doing something physical.

Our system is based on "effort". A guy in the beginning of the year pushed me and I hurt my foot falling into a ditch. Still hurts X.X
Run=hurt
Hurt=looks like I'm not trying  

Jog at a decent pace but make motions and facial expressions to make people think you're trying.  

Posted by Imprint

So pretty much this is a thread to pad the egos of people with good grades.

Eeyup.  

Posted by Imprint

So pretty much this is a thread to pad the egos of people with good grades.

It's not like you don't boost your ego either. Everyone does once in a while.  

Posted by Blueh

Jog at a decent pace but make motions and facial expressions to make people think you're trying.

Good idea  

Well, here are my current grades - one month in the year:

AP Physics: A-
Chinese IV: C
AP Gov/Econ: A+
Multimedia Design: A+
AP Lit/Comp: C+
Honors Precalculus: B-  

Hon English A
Ap environmental science B
Latin hon B
Ap US history C
Trig C D or F..
Physics.. C D of F


Its funny because someone taking lower classes can get "straight As" and sound smart. They can cheat and Show more work and other pointless writing and get a better grade than me, because the assignments I get and do are A+, the ones I don't do or screw up get Fs,

Logically if you get more of the A+s, the highest grade, than the other grades, the lowest grade, Fs, then you should be above average, right? It doesnt work that way.

Teachers know I'm smart, know that im eager to learn, interested, and don't cram, don't cheat, and don't disturb class. Yet idiots can get higher grades than me. What do colleges and jobs see? Grades that don't explain anything and are utter misleading lies.

As for weighted gpa, it's rediculously scaled, how can a person in standard be better than me, when I'm in AP and get a C, and they get a standard A..

It makes no sense..

Now for the different levels.. Standard, honors, GT, AP, the like,

Its bull****.
Sometimes the only main difference is more work and less idiots disrupting class. The people who need the most help are in the classes with juvenile delinquents. Sometimes the higher levels don't do anything more advanced or fun.. Just more work.. Not rewarding those who can be in those classes.. As for school systems themselves.. Beyond help..

The education system is broken, and if the federal government doesn't do anything about it, the future is bleak.  

I take all honors/AP  

Posted by Shawn

I take all honors/AP

Here's a nice example just today.

I hate physics, at least what we are taught. Physics is math. More math than it is science. At least what we are taught, we have to solve equations and formulas and show this value and that value and graph this and that and this, we need to learn how this term applies to that thing..

It's not about anything exciting or experiments or anything like that.

It has "theoretical" problems that are useless for accurate data because we ignore gravity, air resistance, mass, friction, and other things we will always have fore the rest of our lives. Air resistance doesn't apply in space, but then you get into astronomical physics.


Basically, my teacher teaches in a way that I cannot succeed at, on a subject that I despise, in a classroom that is filled with people that do not contribute positively to my learning in any way.


We had a partner activity today. She assigned me to this kid she also sat next to me..

He snickers at me in English when I "act like a nerd" and I feel and hear him going on and making silent jokes about me and basically is a ass to me.

So I'm doing the lab.. And he asks me for the answer.. I tell him.. Couple of problems later im tired of him leeching off me and when he asks me for the answer for the next problem, I show him the activity demo, and he says "I know I know im just asking" and stuff like "I know I'm just uh asking to check my answer", to which I ask him what he chose as his answer then.. He struggles then obviously guesses the answer is no. It was a 50:50 shot and he guessed right, so I tried to explain to him why it's right, then he says "I know that's why, that's why I answered it that."

Next question... Explain why you chose yes or no..

He asks me what the answer is. Trying not to go ape and punch his face in, I irately remind him that I was just trying to explain it and he said he knew.

He then says "we are in a group, we are supposed to work together and check eachothers work"

Finally I try to explain how that no matter how fast he throws a ball horizontally off a cliff, it will still fall the same amount each time.

He keeps saying he knows and that he has got it. He then asks me what I'm writing as the answer.


After class, I tell the teacher and she says she knew, and that he just doesn't seem to want to even try, and that she tried to pair him with people like me that know physics extremely well and understand it..


Im getting Fs on stuff in her class, I'm a low C or below..

And she says this.
The kid I'm talking about? He has a above a B.

How is this fair? The education system is broken, thus all your grades and classes mean NOTHING.  

And grades do mean something. Colleges actually look if your in AP classes or in a special school. For example, the really smart kids go to AOS in my county which only 40 people are admitted to. They get better scholarships. People with Science honors will be more noticeable than those in Acedemic. It does make a difference. The country is not corrupt.  

Posted by Shawn

And grades do mean something. Colleges actually look if your in AP classes or in a special school. For example, the really smart kids go to AOS in my county which only 40 people are admitted to. They get better scholarships. People with Science honors will be more noticeable than those in Acedemic. It does make a difference. The country is not corrupt.

Exactly, that's the broken bit. Those grades dont mean anything, they look and decide things on those grades that dont tell the truth, that aren't properly done. As I said, I can be much smarter and better at actually learning, a real thirst for knowledge and a enthusiasm for it.

Yet i can get bad grade because of stupid technicalities, teachers unable to cooperate with the way my brain worked, or having a system that because of how my brain is wired I will never be able to score well on.

As I explained in my story, those grades don't tell you how that person did in that class necessarily, they don't tell you the situations, or what the teachers knew that couldn't be expressed in the grades.

I got stuck in honors chemistry because of my math level. My math teacher would not cooperate with me and was a horrible teacher, having many students including myself walking out of his class to go the office to file a complaint.


The grades can't tell you that.

Those classes can differ, their titles never truly mean what their content was, as curriculum isn't always the same and followed the same way..


Your grades mean nothing but a broken systems output that places will wrongly use to judge.


So all the grades in this thread? They mean nothing.