a GPA based on football
Maybe he got his rushing average confused with this grade average.
If every vampire who said he was at the crucifixion was actually there, it would have been like Woodstock.
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Natter 47: My Brilliance Is Wasted On You People
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Connie Neil - Sep 26, 2006 2:23:36 pm PDT #418 of 10001
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aurelia - Sep 26, 2006 2:30:28 pm PDT #419 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Strega, I'm with you on the first and last sentences. I'm not so sure about any kind of conspiracy or blackmail between Hawkins and Jake. I'm sure there is some shocking secret about why Hawkins is an ex-cop (it'd be better if he were ex-FEMA) but I'm sure it'll turn out (eventually) that he's a good guy who got a bad rap.
aurelia - Sep 26, 2006 2:32:36 pm PDT #420 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Now, it's by no means easy to get your yellow belt, especially with the instructor they have, but college credit? Weird to my head.
They offered bowling at my Univ. for credit. It's weird, but I think the school has a defensible logic. I can't fully explain it, but it has to do with the fact that you still have to meet the specific requirements for a degree.
I'm talking about High School.
Sean K - Sep 26, 2006 2:33:15 pm PDT #421 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Strega, aurelia:
I think Hawkins is one of the escaped prisoners.
Jesse - Sep 26, 2006 2:39:24 pm PDT #422 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I got graded on gym in high school, and it did factor into my GPA.
DawnK - Sep 26, 2006 2:39:27 pm PDT #423 of 10001
giraffe mode
not giving credit for sports
My daughter is a high school freshman this year, and as far as I can tell sport teams count as the PE class so they get credit but it's in lieu of regular PE. When their sport isn't playing, they have to do regular PE stuff or lift weights. They get out of class for games/meets but they have to make up the work and maintain at least a "C" average with no unsatisfactory citizenship grade.
§ ita § - Sep 26, 2006 2:40:36 pm PDT #424 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
We got graded on PE et al in high school, but it's not like UK schools have GPAs. So it totally didn't count outside the school.
Hil R. - Sep 26, 2006 2:41:40 pm PDT #425 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
In high school, we got graded for gym, and it counted for "credit" insofaras we had to pass four full years of it in order to graduate, but it wasn't counted into our GPA. Also, kids who were on sports teams still had to take gym, which I thought was unfair, since I probably would have enjoyed gym a lot more and learned a lot more if the varsity kids weren't there.
Kathy A - Sep 26, 2006 2:42:48 pm PDT #426 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I got graded on gym in high school, and it did factor into my GPA.
Me, too, and boy was I pissed about it--my high school was the only one in town (out of five schools, including our brother school) that factored gym grades into the GPA.
aurelia - Sep 26, 2006 2:49:23 pm PDT #427 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
We had gym as a graded class, too. The wording made me think that's not what the kid was talking about though. I haven't seen the story so I may not have all the context.
Sean, that's an interesting idea. It almost makes me want to watch again to see if that'd work within the timeline we've been shown so far.
Suddenly my iPod is being all thematic by playing Kate Bush's "Breathing".