'Potential'
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath. Oh, and help us get Terriers dvds!
But good grades weren't really the point there.
I think that was the problem for me. I started doubting that I'd really learned anything in high school. I knew, even with a B in college, that I had worked for it and had to really learn how to put all the information given to me into a useful context and not rely on sheer memorization of facts.
SailAweigh is me. Straight A's without a single bit of homework all through high school. College was quite the shock. Being 17 at the time didn't help either.
grades? We were being graded? I was hanging out in the student center with the leftists.
Laga, I was at the University of Oregon. We were all leftists.
My college didn't have grades. Also, it felt like an intellectual regression from my IB classes for the first year. And with no grades, where the hell was the fun in competing with your friends to see who did better and could in-your-face it?
To this day, I have no idea why everyone thought Evergreen was such a great school for me. I tried explaining that I need a structure to rebel against and lines to skirt outside, but did anyone listen to me? Nooooooooooo.
Eh. At least I don't have loan debt. And I got a husband and eventually, a great kid, out of it.
where the hell was the fun in competing with your friends to see who did better and could in-your-face it?
wants to send this to parenting author I just read who proclaims competition EVIL.
PM, I went to a college without grades (not evergreen) and I *loved* it. I absolutely thrived outside the competitive bullshit that had become part and parcel of my high school experience.
Narrative evaluations were a trip.
Ms Havisham went to Bennington College, where there was no grades per se, and found it not very useful.
When I went through schooling in the UK, I never cared about my grades. Like, at all. I left with pretty shitty grades, and it never held me back in the slightest in work life.
I have an education related thing. And it's thread relevant. I'm very pleased by this.
A few weeks ago as part of my non-teaching job, I was asked to teach a lesson about Drive to a bunch of 17 year olds. Today the essays came in. Choice quotes of greatness:
"Drive was made by Fox however as it had a cast of unknowns it was not made by a big company."
"Both sexes are used so it is multiracial."
"At the beginning there is a montage of black and white pictures in sepia." "It could be classed as a TV drama because it's on TV and is a drama, but this would be a bit vague but overtly this is true."
From this I deduce that I rock as a teacher.