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.

Those are brilliant. It's like something people would say on Extras.

Oh Jackal! I feel your pain. Did you see my gem from a few months ago?

When asked about her grammatical ability, one of my students wrote the following: ”I am very good on grammatical concepts. I spent years learning it, so it enjoys me to use it in my writing.”

Not sure whether to laugh or cry, I shared this gem with one of my colleagues. He emailed back a single line. It read, “That was the most funingly thing I have been reading since three or more days from then.”

So no worries. We both rock.

On the plus side, at least your student has confidence in their ability or lack thereof.

When asked about her grammatical ability, one of my students wrote the following: ”I am very good on grammatical concepts. I spent years learning it, so it enjoys me to use it in my writing.”

Is the girl's last name Smeagol?

”I am very good on grammatical concepts. I spent years learning it, so it enjoys me to use it in my writing.”

There was a time in my life that I could have written this sentence purposefully, with tongue firmly planted in cheek. And gotten away with it. Had a teacher offer us extra credit for memorizing Hamlet's "To Be or Not To Be" soliloquy overnight. When it was my turn to recite, I came out with "Jabberwocky", got a few laughs, and the points. Still had to have the soliloquy down pat for the exam the next week, though.

On the plus side, at least your student has confidence in their ability or lack thereof.

Her confidence is the freakiest part!