I don't know my iq which I am sure is low, but I'm even worse at drawing and translating things into art projects. I mean, does anyone know why the **** in my high school foreign language department art projects were required like making phony suit cases and tedious time consuming mosaics that counted two quiz grades and as much as a quarterly test? There were less than 30 quiz weighted grades to average in one marking period, so the mosaic was at least 6.7% of approximately 40% of a credit, but then it could be worth more than that because the letter grades for the exams and the two marking periods were averaged by letter.
My core class teachers in 7th grade considered art, music, computer, and tech as as important as their own classes and it pissed me off because if they had just done a percentage of their own classes rather than a GPA... when it's not even on the report card in middle school... I could've been the "valedictorian" but I got a "C" in art in the 7th grade, I got the highest percentage in pre alg, and my other a range core class grades wouldve averaged out to be the best. Ive always hated GPA because the range is ridiculous and it distorts reality. For example, some people would just make sure they got a 91.5%... so even in school you're taught to get ahead by being lazy. Then half the grade in my Spanish ii class and a significant portion of the grade in each year of Latin was based upon art. They should give students options, but the art should not only not be graded, it should
not even be extra credit in my opinion. Thankfully, my mom just did the non academic stuff for me and since I found it so unreasonable considering that I had a good Spanish I teacher which was in middle school. It's like people who do well on tests and papers are punished when it comes to art and Phys ed if they don't have someone else to do the art and if they don't get a medical waiver for PE for them. I mean, p.e. is separate from health in high school FFS... I know that it may not be considered by post secondary education, but it still shouldnt be allowed to bring your gpa down if you aren't as fortunate as I was.
The electives teachers were really assholes in middle school and I didn't really have many teachers that really gave a damn... at least the number wasn't as high as the number of college professors I had that gave a damn about everyone. In fact, I can't think of any professors at my alma mater that didn't give a damn... is that because college professors can reason better or what? Public secondary and primary school teachers really pissed me off at times, but my college professors didn't do that and I could easily understand the few the times when they were hard asses... it made sense other than a 100 level religion course professor who was good, but he pretty much refused to explain how he graded... then his syllabus says "you don't get any grades, you earn your grades in this course"... I think he meant the opposite because he said I got an "A" participation grade which was 50% weighted, was told I got all of the extra credit, missed like only 3 classes, didn't get less than a 70% on the other 50% of my grade, didn't want to say what an "a" was or even what my participation scores were the whole semester and wound up with b-, with ranges very precisely specified in the syllabus... I don't remember the syllabus saying he reserved the right to change the weights and he never said he was thinking about changing them that I heard of. Perhaps I'm just dumb, but I wasnt the only one pissed off about his refusal to explain.
