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What the Fark 2: That Was... Interesting.

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SJHovey said:
That may not have been her first rodeo at a Waffle House.
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Or the first occurrence like that at this or some other Waffle House. Had a month's worth of cholesterol at one of those once, and I think of it every time I see the breakfast scene in "My Cousin Vinny."

If she had walked into a Waffle House fully clothed, that would still have been public indecency.
 
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Slap Shot said:
Meth is such a beautiful thing.
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Eh, she looks like she's done of lots of things, but not really meth. Meth is supposed to make you skeletal skinny. She looks like she's pretty plump in the face.
 
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SJHovey said:
That may not have been her first rodeo at a Waffle House.
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At every Waffle House I've been to it's felt like this could happen at any moment. (I keep going back. Waffle House is the only chain that can make grits.)
 
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I may actually have a little bit of sympathy for the school. They may be trying to give honest appraisals, while combating the effects of “grade inflation.”

When a student applies at the next level, be it a competitive high school, college, or whatever, the school s/he applies at may have no idea what the grading standards at the current school are. If the school in their grading standards, their, say 3.2 GPA may represent the same academic achievement as some other school's 4.0. So by applying rigorous grading standards, they may be hurting their students' chances at the next level.

The school described in the link appears to be for relatively young students, so I don't see the value in letter or number grades at all. But whether or not they give letter or number grades it would seem that a simple narrative in each subject would suffice, not a second report card.

I mentor a high school student. I would call him a solid, above average, but not outstanding, student. One term his GPA was 4.167. On a four point system! Some of his courses were a higher track than most students take, but in no cases was it and AP or IB course, and in all cases there was a more advanced class. And he didn't even get all A's.
 
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CLS said:
I mentor a high school student. I would call him a solid, above average, but not outstanding, student. One term his GPA was 4.167. On a four point system! Some of his courses were a higher track than most students take, but in no cases was it and AP or IB course, and in all cases there was a more advanced class. And he didn't even get all A's.
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At my prep high school, regular courses were graded on the 4.0 scale. "Honors" were graded on a 4.5 scale, and AP classes were graded on a 5.0 scale. Thus, all of the top students had inflated GPAs well above 4.0.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
At my prep high school, regular courses were graded on the 4.0 scale. "Honors" were graded on a 4.5 scale, and AP classes were graded on a 5.0 scale. Thus, all of the top students had inflated GPAs well above 4.0.
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40+ years ago when I was in high school, we never had this sort of stuff.
 
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joecct said:
40+ years ago when I was in high school, we never had this sort of stuff.
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21 years ago, when I was in my senior year, this wasn't in my high school, but we'd heard rumors of it in others. I recall the "great debate" about it from those who were in the top ranks of the class, because the valedictorian was in the standard level courses, had a 4.0, but the salutatorian was in all the highest level courses offered and had a 3.99 GPA. Some people thought it unfair.
 
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St. Clown said:
21 years ago, when I was in my senior year, this wasn't in my high school, but we'd heard rumors of it in others. I recall the "great debate" about it from those who were in the top ranks of the class, because the valedictorian was in the standard level courses, had a 4.0, but the salutatorian was in all the highest level courses offered and had a 3.99 GPA. Some people thought it unfair.
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We never had that problem. Valedictorians and salutatorians were always chosen based on strength of schedule relative to GPA attained. So the valedictorian inevitably was the guy or gal who took a full load of AP and honors classes, and graduated with a 4.5+ cumulative GPA, while the salutatorians had a similar course load and were somewhere in the 4.4+ range.
 
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