Tell me what you really think.
Right you are! They should never figure it out in the middle of the year....that's just wrong. It shouldn't be too hard to figure it out in the last 2-3 weeks of school (I couldn't do it, but there are computer whizzes who could).
I recently took a tongue lashing from a parent whose son is failing my advisement-reading class because he didn't complete an independent novel and take a Scholastic Reading Counts test by the trimester mid-term. After about twenty minutes in the conversation it occured to me that she's planning on him "earning" a scholarship to a prestigious university. I can't imagine what gasket she will blow when the lazy, defiant little shit moves on to high school next year!
I remember when I got my standings from my high school. I was definitely not terribly close to the top but I certainly wasn't last. I was 87th in a class of 627. The person that graduated as the valedictorian had a 108% How is that possible? She ended up going to the Air Force Academy and now is a rocket scientist. How's that for exciting! She deserved it and still does!
Oh wait I hit enter before I was done.
She recently chucked her career to be a stay at home mom. She was single until two years ago. She saved a ton of money and is now a stay at home mom. My hat is still off to her!
From Hula Girl (I'm going to let her type now)
Thank you for the books. I really like them.
I love that last sentence.. is that yours or did you hear it somewhere? HAH..Things are just way too easy nowdays..they should revcert back to the old style of doing stuff...I would hate to see what these kids become in the future by just sailing through........cdee
I wondered how all of those Kennedys got into Harvard.
Wrong. Makes me shake my head.
Worse than what really goes on are the individuals who don't really BELIEVE it goes on.
Deserving kids left in the dust once again.
Wow...the closest our HS came to figuring out who the valedictorian (just one) and salutatorian (just one) would be was by having the seniors take finals a week before the rest of the school.
Gosh, someone had to sit down and figure it out...I'm pretty sure it wasn't all plugged into some spreadsheet, since computers were still pretty much room sized, punch card eating monsters (except for that nifty Radio Shack Tandy model.) How horrible that someone had to sit down and DO HIS OR HER JOB.
Why would a parent NOT want his/her child to EARN a scholarship? Where is the love of learning, the pride of knowing that achievements have been earned. I know that I sound like a wuss, but why would a parent want something handed to their child? I once read that the Rockefeller children had to cut grass on their family's estate to earn money. It true, that's cool!
Oh dear. And I thought that three weeks early was bad.
Grade inflation is rampant at our school as well. Because our wealthy loud parents know how to work the system, every year I get called into Mr.Principal's office about some poor grade a student has earned.
I've been told, during the last week of a term,that I HAD to give extra credit opportunities to certain students if parents asked. Even though certain aforesaid students did not choose to do the extra credit assignment (1x per semester) when he or she had the chance.
Grr...
I once read that the Rockefeller children had to cut grass on their family's estate to earn money.
Did you know that Rockefeller Jr. made his kids keep detailed ledgers of all the money they made and spent, to the penny, until they were 18?
Fun fact for the day.
Now, back to the subject at hand...
Commenting by HaloScan
