ee ja nai ka?

[okroginator]

Dear parents:

Okay, here's the deal.  I missed an assignment in a class and turned it in a day late for half-credit.  I got a bad grade in another class, but I redid it for seven points added to my grade.  I did my best on that one.  And I failed to ace it.

I'm not perfect.  You two know that.  You tell me you know that.

What you fail to realize is

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I read somewhere that a huge percentage of students in the upper percentiles are stressed out beyond belief -- for them, getting a B is a horrible experience. A lot of the times, I think it's because they have to go home to parents like that. Parents who think that a bad grade or a bad semester is going to ruin their baby's future. Mine were like that, too. I think my mother would have strangled me for my own good if I'd ever gotten a C. It got to the point where I'd hide from her -- even long after the years when it mattered. I never told her I'd dropped a class midway through the semester in grad school because I was afraid of what she'd say.

When will they learn that they're not helping? :\

Good luck!

[leradny]

Word to the rant, love!

[ironside]

*HUG*

There's so much more to life than school. I wish school~ knew that. XD Sometimes I wish I could've been homeschooled right from kindergarten onward--classes and grades and everything are just so f--cking discouraging.

"Cute little box of state standards for education"

Ahaha. Oh gosh. I couldn't have said it any better. D:

But just so this isn't a TOTALLY DISCOURAGING comment: "Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect."