Your High School Grades

Hi,

I was lazy as hell in school. So my grades were average. But that could not discourage me from getting some engineer degrees and becoming Gyro Gearloose . Statements like 'If you really want to reach an objective you can reach it (with hard work)' or 'From dishwasher to multimillionaire' seem to be true. But that's wrong, wrong in my country, wrong in the US and possibly wrong in every other country. Childs from poor families or children from social classes where education is not a valuable objective have much fewer chances to upgrade their social class.

Regards
Gyro

 

i took ap and government courses. I finished with a 3.5something. Ours were never weighted.

 

I graduated with a 4,8 gpa.
I also skipped classes quite often

 

I don't like you anymore.

 

By that reasoning I would have gotten 3.6

I suck.

 

I totally missed that post. We have a different system here.


Why don't you like me ? Its okay, I'm stupid now.

 

Because you like pretty boys. *turns away in disgust*

 

I graduated with like a 3.4 I think. All A's Freshman year to give myself a nice start and then I coasted the rest of the way. I lettered in Basketball / Football / Weightlifting so I was usually too busy to do homework or study. Only took the SAT once to qualify for a scholarship and I got a 1200. I kinda wish I put some effort into it to see how well I coulda done.

 

I went to an alternative school (a year prior to the introduction of VCE in Victoria, Australia). They didn't like to give A,B,C etc., as grades, they graded you based on what was a good achievement for the individual.

Was interesting explaining my report card to my prospective employers who couldn't think outside the box. "But this makes no sense to me. Is this closer to an A or a D?"

 

Thats definitely an interesting way to be graded.

 

I was good at languages and sucked at everything else.

 

I'm kinda good at speaking English. I suck at all other languages.

 

You must be American...


or maybe English.

 

I could be Australian. Am I typing with an accent?

 

No but you just asked an Australian about the number of farmers in his country.

 

I took college prep classes, and when I actually did my work I did quite well. But most of my high school years were spent with a lot of emotional turmoil due to things that were going on in my home, so I kind of developed a bad attitude when it came to my schoolwork. I just didn't care anymore. Nothing really seemed to matter to me at that point in time. Depressed, most definitely.

I had been in gifted classes, an honor roll student, but suddenly none of that really held much significance to me. I either didn't go to school (faked being sick) or I went and did absolutely little or nothing.

It really frustrated my teachers because they said I had so much potential that I was wasting, that obviously when I did put forth the effort, I was very successful. But what can I say, I wasn't thinking clearly then.

However, my senior year I did a turnaround. This was also the year I met my husband (who was already out of school, 4 years older than I). I think he had a lot to do with my improved attitude...my grades went back up, I actually put forth the effort again.

But, it was a little too late to fix the damage I had done from my previous years regarding my education. Which is why I'm going to make sure my kids never do that!

 

i did very well in highschool...

i was only concerned with a few things... getting high... getting good grades... dealing drugs... and apathy towards every type of social relationship not involving weed.

 

Very observant. But I don't know the amount of farmers in England and America either.

 

I was one of those kids who took smart kid classes, but would only show up to school 2/3 days out of the week. Yet I'd still get by because I'd do well on tests/midterms/finals. I ended up dropping out, and finishing two years of high school in three months at night school. Then worked at a law firm for a year, until finally going to college.

Now in college, I do okay. I could obviously do much better, but I'm sort of an underachiever in a sense. I'm completely okay with getting a B in a course, even if I know deep down that getting an A would have been a piece of cake.

It's fucked up

Favorite classes I ever took in high school -- honors accounting and honors geometry.

 

43 and a half. Exactly.