if i came home with a D on my spanish oral exam. i am a straight A student in everything and taking a college class in Spanish. i have a 4.48 GPA. the spanish class i'm taking i've gotten A's straight through on the quizzes and compositions. but the teacher never had us try to speak it until the end when all of a sudden he makes us "role play" in spanish. i got a 60. since it was 10% of our grade, i still might get an A in the class, but i'm expecting a B. i wasn't all upset about it, just glad that it was over. my mom was all "it's ok hunny, you had no experience speaking it, etc." on the phone and was sympathetic like she thought i thought it was the end of the world for me. but my friends said if they got a D, they would have been punished for it. if i was your kid, would you punish me?
2007-12-06 04:26:26 · 30 answers · asked by :) 3 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Parenting
oh, and yes i did try my best, but my partner was waaaay older than me and since the day before the police came and drug her boyfriend to jail, she was so scatterbrained she couldn't even put 2 sentences together in English, much less Spanish......
2007-12-06 04:27:56 · update #1
i'm 16 yo, but dual-enrolling at the college.
2007-12-06 04:41:11 · update #2
if a high school student gets straight A's in college classes through the dual-enrollment program, their GPA can get higher than 4.0.
my dad knew a guy in one of his college classes that had GPA of 12.68. how THAT is possible, i don't know. lol.
2007-12-06 04:43:59 · update #3
NO I WOULDN'T PUNISH YOU. LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE IS VERY HARD FOR ANYONE. AND SPEAKING IT IS EVEN MORE DIFFICULT. I HAVE TAKEN SEVERAL SEMESTERS OF SPANISH AND CAN WRITE IT FAIRLY WELL BUT SPEAKING IT I AM NOT SO GOOD AT. I CAN USE IT BUT I NEVER PUT IT ON JOB APPLICATIONS SIMPLY BECAUSE I DON'T LIKE USING IT. I THINK I SOUND REALLY FUNNY. SO NO, YOU CAN'T BE SO HARD ON YOURSELF. YOU SOUND LIKE YOU GET FAIRLY GOOD GRADES.
2007-12-06 04:36:55 · answer #1 · answered by crazeeeecindy 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No I would not punish you but who am I to say. I have no kids and I am in college myself. I am only 21. I'm prolly not the right one to be answering this question but if I look down the road about 20 years, I don't think I would punish my straight A child for getting a once in a lifetime D.
2007-12-06 04:36:44 · answer #2 · answered by Floridagirl 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
From your question, am I correct that you consider that you might deserve some punishment? If you feel that way because you may not have done your best to prepare for that test, you could talk with your mom and ask her to make you do extra exercises in Spanish so that you bring out the best in you, or volunteer to stay for a home for a weekend or two and spend your time studying Spanish.
2007-12-06 07:58:57 · answer #3 · answered by cyranonew 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, it doesn't sound like you need any punishment at all. You've learned whatever lesson you need to learn from that by dealing with the natural consequences of what happened. I'm thinking, though, that the 'lesson' to be learned is - sometimes life throws you curveballs that you can't plan for at all & all you can do is try your best to get through it.
Congrats on your great work so far in your school career!
2007-12-06 04:59:21 · answer #4 · answered by Maureen 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No I wouldn't punish you, in Science I normally get Level 7's (In year 9 you are expected to have level 5's) and one day I came home with a low level 5, I didn't get punished, just asked why I didn't do so well. Its not your fault exactly, you had a little slip, it happens
2007-12-06 06:12:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your mother says it OK and thats what counts in your house. What happens in your friend's houses is their business. If you are a straight A student there would be no dicipline from me, however, if this had been a case of straight A's dropping to C's & D's in one semester I would probably already have clued in during that time period but if not we would surely be have a meaningful discussion - perhaps more than one but that is not the case here as you describe it. Congratulations & good luck.
2007-12-06 04:38:46 · answer #6 · answered by MYRA C 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. I don't punish my kids for bad grades. I congratulate them on good ones! Nobody is good at every subject. If I notice they are struggling I intervene and help or get them help. If you are typically an A student and your teacher had not been practicing the "role play" then you were ill prepared by your teacher. I encourage my children to do their best, as long as they are I'm happy. I don't expect my kids to be perfect, I much prefer them to be themselves. :)
2007-12-06 04:38:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Because you are an above average student, I wouldn't get mad. That D could only bring you down to a B. For average student, a D would bring their grade down to a C or D which is not a good thing. Congrats of being such a great student
2007-12-06 04:34:11 · answer #8 · answered by ladyluck 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well if you're in college you're getting kinda old to punish over your grades. However if you were my 3rd grader you'd spend a little more time studying what you got the D on. But no I don't punish for grades? haven't really had to cross that bridge yet she gets straight A's too.
2007-12-06 04:39:59 · answer #9 · answered by maybe 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You sound like an overall good student. I wouldn't punish an overall good student for a single bad grade in a single class. Especially if you didn't have any experience speaking.
2007-12-06 04:36:30 · answer #10 · answered by Diann C 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Ummmmm, yeah...I would not punish you. This is an anomoly and not your normal behavior (it sounds like) so we all make mistakes and no one is perfect.
Now I was punished for D's as a kid...but, I was almost a straight D student at one point, which indicates you are not really trying. This was elementary school...thank heavens I straightened up and did better because it is important.
2007-12-06 04:33:30 · answer #11 · answered by Jen M 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋