June 08, 2005

Oddly enough, the Seniors seemed to be just as childish, if not more so, than all the other grade levels at my High School this year.

Whiney bastards, too.

when I went to school a gentleman's C was an average grade. Average means just that-more people earned C's than B's and A's and the real lazy types got the D's and an occasion red F

A few years ago when I was a mere youth of some 55 Summers, I enrolled in a Community College CAD course. I told the registrar my 1962 High School GPA was 2.8. She wrote down 4.0 because she said that's what I would get now compared to the standards in 1962.

What a bunch of fucktards we've got running the schools now.

I also had some dimwit call yesterday to do a "survey" for my local fishwrap. The first thing out of her iggorant pie hole was that she wanted to "Ax me some questions." I told her that in my social circles no one "axes" questions, they "ask " them. She hung up on me. I called the editor of said fishwrap and "asked" why they didn't screen their survey people for the ability to speak English. He hung up on me. I called the circulation department and cancelled my subscription and told them why. Got two more calls today, one "axing" me to reconsider and one "asking" the same thing. Told 'em both to go fuck themselves.

Gerry

That really irritates me -- I graduated from high school with a 3.89, via the honors/accelerated classes, and they were just beginning to talk about "weighting" those classes.

Obviously the idiots running the school system never stopped to think about how it diminished the accomplishments of those who managed to succeed without special grading . . .

"When everybody's somebody, then no one's anybody."

www.fredoneverything.net has an excellent column up right now entitled "The Chinese Tide."

Gawd, I always thought GPA was a drug that I hadn't tried yet.....Murry

Nigel meant that his IQ is 4.6 not his GPA. He's too fucking dumb to know the difference.

The GPA 4.0 scale is crap. I have always liked percentile grading. Using that scale, a 60% is a 60%, no ifs, ands, or buts about it.

Well, my graduation was in 1996 and I had a 4.25 GPA because I took a 2 college prep classes that were 'weighted' (really just another way to make them feel good). But, without the weighting, I had a 3.7 which is what I told people if and when they asked. Never did understand the weighting of grades. It's like the Canadian exchange rate. I can tell people that I make a $50,000 salary, but neglect to mention it's in Canadian dollars and that I'm really just making $40,000 in US dollars. But 50k sure sounds better!

I saw the Harvard grades that Kerry and Bush got there.
Harvard says a grade between 60 and 70 is a D and IS PASSING.
What Bullshit.
When I went to high school and college in Texas, the lowest grade possible to pass on was a C, which is 70.

No pass, you repeated the course, PERIOD.

Saludos,,,,,mc

First of all you stupid old redneck get over yourself. And come to the 21 century! GPA's now a days are different but there is some students in this world who work hard for their 4.6 GPA. You don't even know what your talking about have you even been in a honors class have you been had to take all nighters just to study for one test. I don't think so! So shut your mouth you old prune and go watch your black and white television and listen to your folk music.