@CottonTales, was your #3080 serious or parodic? (I’m serious, I can’t tell.)
If it was serious, well, ‘skating through’ certainly does imply, at least as far as I’m aware, not applying oneself. However, I’ll note that I never said (or even implied, as I re-read my #3076) that anyone who finds school easy hasn’t applied themselves to their work. There are, however, some people who simply skate through without applying themselves, and well, if my comment was insulting to them, I’m happy to be there.
The real issue: There’s a pair of continua at play here: (1) between those who apply themselves and those who don’t, and (2) between those who do well gradewise and those who don’t. I was talking about those in the quadrant of those who don’t apply themselves and get good grades, while @Sue22 mentioned those who apply themselves and don’t get good grades. These are not the only logical combinations, however—there are two more, and so drawing conclusions about posters’ motives as they were working in a binary space is problematic, to say the least.
HS rankings change every year, so a student from a school that is (or was) ranked #1, somewhere, for one of the past few years, will claim their school rank as #1. Just another part of the price of privilege.
Actually, that can be a legitimate claim. Some schools are super competitive with zero grade inflation, no weighting, etc. It would have made no sense to post my kids’ GPAs here because they were meaningless outside the context of their competitive school and would seem very, very low to others. That’s where Naviance proved more helpful.
I have more of an issue with the students and parents who automatically assume that highly ranked students at a lesser competitive school would automatically be ranked lower at a competitive school. There really is no way to know unless that student attended both schools.
@TomSrOfBoston my younger kid is in the bottom 20% of her grade of 850 kids with a 3.1 cumulative gpa and a lot of honors and ap classes. The public school is ranked in the top 1% of schools in the nation. The val this year had a 4.79, the highest in the school’s history. If I’d kept her in the school in a nearby town, that same GPA would have her in the top 40% of the class. It’s real, man. And it means she’s avoiding looking at colleges that consider rank.
It wasn’t the artful use of the English language, but seriously, can we get back to annoying threads?
So, I’ve seen two threads started today, I believe, where the OP literally asks a question with either ZERO information supplied or just a morsel of information. That’s aggravating.
The annoying threads are the ones were apparently a lot of action has occurred during the day but it’s all been removed and you’re just left to wonder…
Please point out to me the rare kid that actually looks at old threads before asking a question as I would like to shake his/her hand. If they actually looked at old threads, we would not have 1000 variations of “Will I be rescinded” “Should I send…”, etc.
For the same reason that I ask users to stay on topic when a kid asks a question. An ongoing thread without the OP is just a tangent. If users want to have tangential conversations, there is the cafe.
Proving my point that users don’t look for earlier threads on the subject.
As an FYI, I generally agree with the one thread per topic. However, in this case, as I am not here 24/7, and no other user reported it, by the time I was back here, the Parent’s Forum thread was created and reached 5 pages. Merging would have made a confusing mess. Other than those 2, any others I have found I have put a redirect link in the thread.
@carolinamom2boys, that won’t happen any longer - every six months or so, all threads with no recent posts are automatically closed.
We found that a lot of old threads were opened by people advertising products or websites. Closing old threads automatically has made the moderators’ lives easier!
This one has always needed to be closed. Any other thread with such direct complaining about other users, such that they are identifiable or are sure to read it and be offended, would have been gone long ago.
