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yourroyalpenis: gaezedkriel: keylimepie: accountant-in-a-can: punkrockluna: bubblegum-momoi-satsuki: gouthesupermanager: flameoflight: well-metaphoricallyspeaking: heruut: i-aint-even-bovvered: songofages: jonbutter: Heartbreaking Simpsons Moments 1/∞: Bart Gets an F I never understood why it’s an F if he gets more than half out of 100? Unless it’s more than 100. If you get more than half the answers right how is it an F? You must not be from America. Here, grading is fucked up. Average American Grading Scale:A+- 97-100A - 94-96A- - 90-93B- 80-89C- 70-79D- 60-69F- 59 and under And in some places in America it goes by a 7 point scale, so it’d beA - 100-93B - 92-85C - 84-78D - 77-70F - 69 and below Now you understand why American kid’s feel like there’s no point to school. If you have a 100 question text, and get 79 of them correct, that’s a C. That mean’s your Average Intelligence on this particular subject. And it get’s even worse when you have only like… a 10 question quiz. If you get two wrong? that’s a B. 80 fucking %. Now tell me again why American school’s are easier? No wait but whats the grading system in other countries? UK Grading Scale 100-70: A 69-60: B 59-50: C 49-40: D Below 40: F next time you try to tell americans that we’re stupid i’m gonna remind you that our “average” is your “A” #is that true?Yep I was shocked when I heard this in a different post but a Google search pulls up a ton of sites backing this up.Shit son I woulda passed College Algebra with an A in the UK. And I spent the end of the semester in perpetual fear that I would fail and have to retake the class. And basically as an American you’re expected to get 80 or higher. Technically 70s are considered ‘average’ but there is such a level of pressure to get a B or higher, that Cs have become equal to Ds. Basically anything under 60 you might as well gotten a 0, and anything between 60-80 is considered practically failing. So basically schools have to be designed to make sure majority of students are getting 80s or higher on specific topics, which means you’re spending all your time going over a few choice facts a billion times and there is very little room to teach anything else. Which explains why American schools are of such low quality. The insane demand on the students ends up wrecking their education. Not only do you not have time to teach them anything, but they end up hating learning. Even outside of school your life is dedicated to memorizing these few dumb facts because your homework ends up taking hours of your time. A teacher from one subject says they expect you to spend 2 hours every night on their homework. And if you’re studying 5 subjects and they all demand that 2 hours? Good fucking luck, because if you don’t have straight all 80s or higher you’re not getting into a good college and college degrees have somehow become the minimum requirement for getting jobs. I spent most of my junior year of high school in a state of constant panic that I was going to get a C in Honors Physics much less fail the class. If I got a C on my report card, I was grounded until the next one. I lost count of the times I’d wake up at five in the morning to take the early bus to go in for zero hour before school actually started for the day File this under the exact reason so many Americans detest going to school. This is what makes me love my teachers so much, as an American. My Math teacher pretended to teach us the Math III curriculum because he thought that the common core was total bullshit. He also fought the school board with me when they forced me into some bullshit 20 minute class because I didn’t get high enough scores on the math portion of MAP testing, this forced me to not be able to have extra rehearsals for drama class, causing me to almost fail Drama. Drama is my life, I live and bleed acting, and my MATH TEACHER sat with me and called the school out on their crap because of his respect for the arts. My English teachers would always tell us that if we got a 72% or higher on our papers that we were doing GOOD, they encouraged us to do our best and if we didn’t get an A or B, they would cheer us up somehow. They were realistic with us and at no point forced us to pretend like 75% wasn’t a good grade and if half class was failing they would change the course and the entire class would work together to keep everybody on track. The Art teacher refused to teach the way the state wanted her to teacher, she was willing to sacrifice a pay check to make sure her students got the best education they could, she also cares about her students. She understands that sometimes we have bad weeks, that sometimes we’re not preforming the best of our ability. I was having a terrible week, I was barely eating, barely sleeping, my boyfriend dumped me. She noticed I was acting strange so she pulled from my free period, sat me down, gave me food, a cup of tea, and sacrificed her planning period to listen to me cry about my problems. She knew that our home lives had a huge impact on our school life and knew that in order to keep us going teachers needed to show some support. She realized that our grades reflected on our ability to believe in ourselves and the rest of our teachers realize the same thing. My drama teacher (also English) had an emotional break down when the parents of a few kids freaked out for our late rehearsal and she told us we were her family and that she loved us like her own children, she also talks with her students about their home problems and she missed 15 minutes of her next class to help me and another student understand our assignment. My Spanish teacher takes in students who are having home problems and helps them feel loved, she has countless times picked me up from my home, took me to town, bought me dinner, and we just chilled out before she took me home again, when my parents were fighting. A girl passionate about Volleyball couldn’t go to the AAU meets because her parents couldn’t afford gas so the Spanish teacher drove her across the state to these games so she could play the game. My old biology teacher was teaching evolution and if the religious kids didn’t want to be involved, she just put them in a separate room and when tests came around she gave them the answer sheet. She was fully aware that the my partner was cheating off of me, so out of pity she would just give me the answers, I still learned plenty of things and remember them.I go to a small school and when I got to bigger schools with high drop out rates and noticed the lack of connection and understanding between staff and students, I see goofy staff and hear of little things some teachers do. I see these teachers pressuring their students to get A’s and pushing out the idea of extra-circulars, ignoring home life, and neglecting the feelings of their fellow students. I’m lucky to go to a small school with caring staff who make sure we’re self aware, studious, and behaved children. My school respects the kids that don’t want to go to college, and works with the students hand in hand to create an optimal learning environment. Plenty of other American schools don’t practice this because they are too concerned with preparing kids for the ACT and for some bullshit 8 year college course, telling us the only way we’re going to be happy is by ignoring our passions and to get the white picket fence life. I told my guidance counselor that I was going to become a beautician, then work on becoming a special effects makeup artist, and save up money to afford college and become a script writer and director, and you know what she did? She made sure that I got more art credits, signed me up for makeup classes at the college, and put my name out to several different beauty schools. Not only that but she informed the other teachers so that way they could help, for example, I’m in Financial Algebra and the same Math teacher mentioned before makes problems pertaining to his students future jobs. I told this to my cousin, who also wants to be a beautician, and who know what her school did? They laughed in her face! They stuck her in three classes she’ll never need because it’s preparing her for college, and the real world. Currently, she’s failing those three classes because of the struggle to balance those classes, a job, and after school classes to help with becoming a beautician. She gave up those after school classes to keep herself from failing and may have to give up her job, which she needs to help save up so she can go to beauty school. I know plenty of people all around America that have GIVEN UP THE THOUGHT OF GOING TO COLLEGE BECAUSE OF THEIR GRADES, THEIR ACT SCORES, AND BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE THEY ARE STUPID AND GOOD FOR NOTHING. THEY CAN’T AFFORD COLLEGE BECAUSE THEIR GRADES/SCORES AREN’T GOOD ENOUGH FOR SCHOLARSHIPS. Yet, Americans still wonders why we’re the “stupid county.” -- source link
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