Grades in school question?

Question

I am not a parent, but i would not care if my child had at least passing grades, and good attendance in school rather than making the honor roll. I have a learning disability, and i remember it was hard for me in school to excell in certain subjects even though i worked hard. This is why i dont care because i can see my vintage self in their shoes. Anybody agree with me?

I like the bumper sticker: "My pug is smarter than your honor student"

Answer 1

While I think kids should work hard and do their best in school, look at people like Richard Branson - worth millions - and nearly failed school - dyslexic. There are also a lot of unsuccessful Honor roll students. As the now famous study showed (can't remember the title/author) - there is a negative correlation between education and happiness. The happiest people in life are often those with just a high school degree and street smarts. Those with the post-grad degrees and top grades- often end up realising they went after the wrong things.

Answer 2

Well, like it or not- grades are important. Grades are the goal to shoot for. Without a final goal to aim for, how do you know when you have arrived or achieved it? People without goals to achieve do very little in the end. While I don't require my children to make straight A's, I am not willing to accept mediocrity for lack of effort on their part. So you had a learning disability. That made it more difficult to be sure, but it didn't make it impossible to learn. Okay, you didn't make straight A's, most people don't. I for one am tired of people wanting credit for effort, as if that will somehow make up for the deficiency in knowledge. Yes, I know folks will say that the test doesn't prove what you know, but it sure is a good indication of what you can do with it and what you actually do or don't know. It doesn't matter what you know if you can't do anything with it and can't actually prove you have the knowledge.
So far as the surgeon analogy goes, I'm not sure I want a doctor who got by with a C. While 75% might not sound like a bad deal, what if your illness falls into the other 25%? Do you really like the idea of a surgeon who can do 75% of your surgery? And lets just suppose he really got a D on the exam, but he was trying really hard, so the professor gave him credit for effort and recorded a C. Still feel comfortable with that doctor? Or do you think he might just be malpractice waiting to happen?
You were not hampered by your lack of ability, because there were areas where you were talented. So, you won't be a brain surgeon. That doesn't make you a less valuble person, just a different person with different abilities. Why eliminate the goal just because you can't match it? Are you so willing to accept mediocrity from everyone else? Because if you eliminate the goals, that's the only choice you will have.

Answer 3

They don't matter. Money is all that matters if you are looking to get through the best schools,.. they hated me for not cheating when I was in those kind of schools and for not paying them to up my grades XD

My mom says that her and my grandfather (a doctor) agreed, they'd rather have a surgent that had B's or C's in school. Because the A's did things like cheat or work up their short term memory,.. So when the B's & C's are finally working on a patient they actually remember things from studying their butts off...

Some other reasons,.. someone is yelling in my ear

Answer 4

Well I have a hard time relating to that. I see where you're coming from, but from High school on, i think its important for kids to excel in school in order to get a good job later in life. And also, respectively, just because you have a learning disability, doesn't mean you can't learn. Have you heard of Helen Keller? Deaf, Blind AND mute. She learned to write and read and later even wrote a book. Anyways, I'm getting of topic. The point is, I am not a parent either. In the futureI will not ask my child specifically to get good grades, but to try their hardest.

Answer 5

My children attend a Monteassori school and we don't have grade levels (like my daughter if she went to public she'd be in 7th grade-our school she is a 1st year senior they are grouped together for 3 years)
Also they don't "get" grades on report cards. Instead they get an accutual report (they do get a % score for their tests.) For math it may say a few lines about what type of math they did that term then it will go on to say a few things about that student blah blah...
I wouldn't have it any other way.

Answer 6

if you tell a kid: "I don't care if you have good grades or not", then they will not try hard in school.

Is that what you want kids to learn? That if something is a challenge, then they don't have to try. They can accept mediocrity?

Kids will rise to the bar you set for them. Even if they don't get all A's, they will have tried their best.

I guess your kids will end up being the ones who sponge off the government because they learned to not try hard at a job.

Answer 7

no in hardship-free words extreme college that i understand of an distinctly its in hardship-free words senior 3 hundred and sixty 5 days they look into @Amaretta: Thats stupid for people to look in any respect of highschool, in australia its basically senior no longer some thing else concerns

Answer 8

I think(from my experience)that students who are learning less than they are working hard , are more succesful.And I dont know why.