School + grades + internet = bad

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Thanks to the wonderful internet, my parents can now check up on my grades at school at any given time. This is no good, now I am grounded from doing anything fun on every day but Friday and Saturday, all because I have more B's than A's at the moment.
 
Geez. Well, I don't think it's a stretch to assume your folks want you to be a doctor or something. If you make it big, get even! ;)
 
Both of my parents went to Cornell, and they want me to go there too. My mom is way obsessive about grades and she thinks I'm being lazy because I don't spent hours every day doing homework like she used to.
 
The US school system seems far too grade related to me. Most of my GCSE's and A-Levels were B,C,D grades, sure people who studied more got better grades, but ive never been too good at studying. Just because I have average grades doesnt mean people see me as stupid, infact its the opposite. People will talk to me and ive told them what kind of grades that I got and they were quite shocked. Good grades = Person who studies allot, not nessicarily that intelligent. Although this is not the case for everyone.
 
Is that new system of your school's called Parentxp? Our school has that, but my parents didn't sign up... I have all "A"s at the moment, though my Alg. II grade is in danger of wandering into B+ territory, since my Final exam is worth 25% of my grade.

I'm in the same dilemna as Sublime-- If I were to get more "B"s than "A"s, I think my parents would take a serious look at what "wrong" with me... and they'd probably take away my iBook too! :scared:
 
No, ours is on www.classroll.com. Every parent is automatically signed up for it, and they sent the login registration to my parents by mail. So I couldn't destroy it before they got it.
 
If your parents can read this, good. If they are putting strong pressure on you over having several B's they are going too far and need to lighten up. Your emotional well-being could be jeapordized.

Besides, Ivy Leagues may be overrated. I believe Cornell counts as an Ivy League university.

And look who was turned out by Cornell; Bill Maher. Sometimes a smart guy, often a screwball.

Hopefully Cornell is politically objective, though I have heard they are liberal, I think I heard that. If they are, run before you are corrupted into believing in peculiar reasoning and emotionalism. Avoid anything partisan in getting an education, especially if it does not admit it.
 
Race Idiot, my point exactly!!

People at school are like "what's your GPA(grade point avarage)?" and I'm like "1.5" and they are like "you are stupid or something then". Schools shouldn't give grades at all, they should be either you pass or you don't. I get real sick of people that base intelegents on grades.

Same thing happens in the opposite way when I tell people that we have 7 cars, they are all like "You are rich!!" and then I have to explain that no we aren't rich blah blah.

It's a pain in the but, stuff in life and how people see stuff in the wrong way. Grades are effort based, and damn I tell ya I not only have very little effort(why should I when going to school consists of being teased and being bored and 90% of the stuff wouldn't help me in what I'm going to become) but I honestly just don't care. I got a D, good I passed, I got an F, ohh well I'll marginally do more to get it up to a D. It really doesn't effect me in the least.

I don't think my school has this system, Parkway wastes money on stuff like repainting band new lockers purple, having several rent-a-cops patrol the parking lots looking for cars that, even they are in the right spots and all, don't have the little PNH hanging thingy in the window causing the fake cops to write a $5 ticket and they expect kids to pay(my bro didn't pay a cent even though he had tons of those tickets, and buying new I-macs that are constently breaking down.

Even if they had it someone would hack into it and screw it up if Parkway didn't mess it up first.
 
Hi Mrs. SublimeDood, just to ask you to leave off your son. Come on for Gods sake, having Bs and As is fantastic. Just because he's not as good as you doesn't mean he's lazy and unintelligent.

And if you keep on like this I'll have to come around and beat you with a pointy stick ;)

You don't want that.
 
Originally posted by youth_cycler

I'm in the same dilemna as Sublime-- If I were to get more "B"s than "A"s, I think my parents would take a serious look at what "wrong" with me... and they'd probably take away my iBook too! :scared:
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You think you've got it bad!? If I get two B's, that's right, 2 B's, I get in trouble and my parents "look at what's wrong with me..." They only take my LAX stick though.

It's pretty sad. :shakehead

OA
 
i am currently failing all of my classes right now. Just because i skiped alot. Otherwise, i always had not bad grades. And i hate doing homework
so, B's are good, i dont know why your parents are so picky bout it
 
i imagine that having my grades on the internet would be a violation of the school's privacy policy in some way...thank God i live in a state with 3 million rednecks :). we won't be seeing any of that soon.
now that i think of it, my German grade is on the internet, since they are actually based in Kentucky, but my parents don't know that ;).

i was grounded from video games for the entire summer of 1999 because i got a B in science :rolleyes:.
 
I'm lucky... my mom doesn't really care what my grades are as long as I'm passing. Actually she doesn't care about much I do or don't do.
 
Ask your parents if they would much rather you get all F's and D's then B's and A's. In New Zealand we've just had a new qualification brought in, NCEA. You sit a series of Unit Standards and if you get all questions in one exam right you get and Excellence, if get a certain number (like 7 out of 10) you get a Merit.

There is:
Excellence
Merit
Acheived
Not Acheived

They are pretty hard, you're lucky if you get Acheived on at least 2 of the subjects. I dont sit them till next year, but we sat a few 'teasers' so to speak, and could have easily got Merit, that was in Maths, the hardest of my subjects.

I hate school, school is evil.
 
Originally posted by duo17
You think you've got it bad!? If I get two B's, that's right, 2 B's, I get in trouble and my parents "look at what's wrong with me..." They only take my LAX stick though.

It's pretty sad. :shakehead

OA
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Actually, I'm not exactly sure what would happen even at two "B"s... I've only had one "B" in my life (4th grade, first trimester, 89% in Science), and they were so-so on that...
 
Wow. All of your parents are fascists.

I went to a good school and got mostly Bs, with the occasional A and occasional C. That was just fine with my parents. I got into a decent college with those marks, too, though my SATs were pretty good.

Work hard and learn well, guys, but maintaining straight As is not the most critical thing you're ever going to do in life.
 
i am failing english 11, which is hard for me cuz english is my 3rd language. i also fail science 10, cuz i missed 15 classes when i was sick. But teacher is hooking me up with work and tests. so my mark will go up to the level where it was, 72%. I fail art and ACCT, the same reason, was sick. ACCT is damn hard. harder then math, but not in calculations. I just dont get the way people do accounting
i will take enlglish 11 next semester and pass it
 
Originally posted by SublimeDood10
Thanks to the wonderful internet, my parents can now check up on my grades at school at any given time. This is no good, now I am grounded from doing anything fun on every day but Friday and Saturday, all because I have more B's than A's at the moment.
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*Cough* B's? Thats not bad, i'm getting like.. 4 F's.. :o
 
I get good grades but my behaviour is pretty bad...

Err. Well, no offense SD, but if technology blows so much and if you wanted it to go away there would be no computers! :eek: So although this may be bad at least there still is an internet. :) And if you get B's that should be good enough...
 
Cobra- That doesn't mean you're smart, that just means everyone else there is really dumb. :D

J/K ofcourse.
 
Am I the only one struck by the irony in someone using the internet to post a message to other internet users about how the internet's a bad thing?

SublimeDood, if you look back in history, there are plenty of examples of items which, when used well, are of benefit to society, but when used badly are a detriment to society. One cannot complain about the medium if it is the use of the medium that causes the offence.

On this occasion then, it's not the technology that blows, but your school's decision to post your grades on the internet in a way that your parents can see.

Of course, if you were a 1337 h4x0r, then you could always use that technology to sort your grades out!
 
I was once told by one of my college Prof's that "The "A" students return to school to teach, the "B" go to work for "C" students"

It's very interesting to get out in the real world and see it as an accurate reflection.

Another note: There is a difference between book smarts and street smarts. My brother graduated from college with a cummulative average of 3.97 (out of 4.00) for his entire time at college. Throughout that time, his wife attended college (*** of 3.85), he held a full time job, with a 1 hour commute, and raised two boys. This is the same guy that spent a half hour under his car looking for an oil plug. He thought it looked like a plug in a sink. Incidentally this is the car that he put 12,000 miles on before he changed the oil.

So my thoughts are that while it's nice for your parents to check up on your grades, on a minute by minute basis, it'd be nicer, if they would sit with you and review what you did at school. An IQ off the charts is fantastic, but if you can't communicate with the person next to you, the IQ means jack.

So...sublimedood, I suggest you make dinner some friday night, and sit with your parents and have a conversation about how your week went. Speak not a word of grades, but of content. What you did, three new things that you never knew before, and what the new theatrical production at school is. Random info that shows you focus on more than your teachers biased evaluation of your skills.

Good luck.

AO
 
I failed out of high school. Eventually I tried again, and at the end of my senior year I was .25 credits short. I was so disappointed I gave up. But again, I made up the credit at a community college and continued on there. After two years I transferred to a university and ended up graduating with honors (3.5+, can't remember the exact number... because it desn't matter!), made the dean's list every full time term, and was in those "honors societies." :rolleyes: I never had to try very hard. Now I see people struggling to maintain a high GPA, getting all excited about their little honors societies and I politely congratulate them and acknowledge my gratitude over not having to trouble myself with such trivial things.

And if I had a bunch of B's in high school my parents would've been ecstatic. But alas, it wasn't meant to be.

I'd venture to say there is something more insideous than knowledge driving your mom's totalitarian approach to rearing you.
 
Speaking of school I had this real bad experience in one of my mock exams today (I'm in the UK, see). It was horrible.

I went and sat down and started getting on with the questions, the first one, fine, the second one, lemon squeazy, up to section 2 then bam! straight in my face. An 8 mark question that I had revised for and my mind went a complete blank.

I then couldn't answer question from then on. I knew the systems but my mind had pushed out what they stood for and what they did.

I am so glad its a mock but I'm not sure what my teacher will say :(
 

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