Student Sues to Get A Changed to A+

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ha ahaha ahahahaha!!

"A high school senior says he earned an A+, not an A, and has sued to get the grade changed to bolster his chance at becoming valedictorian."

http://www.cnn.com/2003/EDUCATION/02/06/a.plus.ap/index.html">click here for the article

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 6 February 2003 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

ugh, dammit! here's the link again:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/EDUCATION/02/06/a.plus.ap/index.html">here

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 6 February 2003 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

fuXoRs!!

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 6 February 2003 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Here ya go, geeta.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/EDUCATION/02/06/a.plus.ap/index.html">try this

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 6 February 2003 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Fuck!
http://www.cnn.com/2003/EDUCATION/02/06/a.plus.ap/index.html">maybe?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 6 February 2003 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

haha!!

graham i am suing you to get my link changed!!

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 6 February 2003 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Yay! I should win some sort of fuckin' prizE!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 6 February 2003 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm gonna try and get all my C+'s changed to B-, goddamit!

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 6 February 2003 17:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Not just an A+ but an A+ for working for his mom!

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 6 February 2003 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)

hahah In Belgium students can go to court if they are not content with the exam results. Seems kinda ridiculous.

― nathalie (nathalie), Thursday, 6 February 2003 17:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Why does he need to be valedictorian anyway? He's got connections. His mom will give him a job.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 6 February 2003 17:51 (twenty-two years ago)

It's that damned affirmative action, just makes it impossible for non-valedictorian white kids to get into good schools. I hear Harvard only accepted three white kids last year.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 6 February 2003 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

what is valedictorian, it sounds painful?

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 6 February 2003 17:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I hear Harvard only accepted three white kids last year.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 February 2003 17:56 (twenty-two years ago)

And they were all named "Quentin Ellsworth III," too!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 6 February 2003 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Leonard E. Funt!

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 6 February 2003 18:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Best Harvard names: (Google-proofed before the first letter of each name)

H ollister L eopold
C oventry E dwards-P itt
Y ellow B reen
C hanning Y u
M arg B arker
N elisa W althour
A bimbola A ina

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 February 2003 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

(Guess the sex associated with each name!)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 February 2003 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I see his point, but someone has to get the point across to this little grind that being second-best is sometimes good enuf.

― Benjamin, Thursday, 6 February 2003 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

How did you get that to work when it was broken Sarah?And I let you temporarily win the last word thread. I must have a crush on you.

Do you wanna make out?

― Graham (graham), Friday, 7 February 2003 00:31 (twenty-two years ago)

There's a girl in the school district next to mine who did that a couple years ago. Only it was to get a "pass" changed to a letter grade, or something, to help her ranking. The district talked about just withholding valedictorian and salutatorian names from the public, but parents yelled a lot so they didn't. (The girl did not get into Harvard. She went to a very good school anyway though.)

― Maria (Maria), Friday, 7 February 2003 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I nagged my textiles teacher to make my D4 (D for attainment, 4 for application) into a C3 on my report. Eventually she said OK but the report was already written, so I had change it myself and I made a mistake so had to cross it out twice and then found some clotted Tippex that I made a real mess with. I don't think my parents really cared that much. I mean C3 is still pretty poor and it was textiles.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 7 February 2003 00:53 (twenty-two years ago)

C oventry E dwards-P itt

OMG. Worlds colliding. CEP was my date (though she didn't know it) for my first concert ever. I had a big crushor on her through much of hs.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 7 February 2003 02:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Shouldn't this thread be about Xgau and M. Doughty?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 7 February 2003 02:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I once argued with a prof. who gave me a grade higher than I deserved on a paper - my argument was that the paper was a last minute piece of crap and he knew and I knew that I could do much better and that he was failing in his duty to grade me based on my ability - he said he graded me compared to the rest of the class (it was at a Junior/Community College, where I'd gone back to take a couple of courses after finishing at the University). Eventually he agreed to drop the grade, let me re-write the damn thing, and then grade it again. (I was at that point in my education where I thought "Hell, if I am paying for this and giving-up my time for this, I am going to make the most of the opportunity.")

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Friday, 7 February 2003 03:41 (twenty-two years ago)

At our college it used to be that an A+ was the same GPA as an A (4.00). THE YEAR AFTER I finished my design diploma, they changed it so that A+'s are now 4.33 (this would have given me a 4.17 GPA). I ended up working at a copy shop though, so who the hell cares.

― Poppy (poppy), Friday, 7 February 2003 09:13 (twenty-two years ago)

(Guess the sex associated with each name!) > I vote no sex for the second.

― nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 7 February 2003 09:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe they should hook up with the third. I doubt they get any either.

― Graham (graham), Friday, 7 February 2003 09:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I do love stories like this!

The things you'll do when good GPA = Get Out Of Hell Free card. Mine include:

Something called 'Informal Geometry' taught by school's football coach.
Gym taken Pass/Fail.
Development of negotiating skills (changing an 'unexcused' absence to an 'excused' one) honed on Ass. Principal who happened to be town mayor (it helped that fellow alum my mum was getting her jollies telling him to stuff it as a parent) and brother of football coach/math teacher.
Anyway, my negotiating skills ('on this curve, the gap between me and the next highest A is so wide you're gonna get a lot of B-pluses feeling cheated out of some kind of A and moaning at me') precluded the need for court action.

There was a posse of about five of us who operated like this and we got away with it because the teachers were happy to have sassy new-waver kids who knew their subject talking to them like adults, but making a laugh out of the whole thing too.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 7 February 2003 09:52 (twenty-two years ago)

he shd be marked down for not putting out

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 7 February 2003 11:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I loe the mysteriously sinister way that article ends:

"A judge is to consider a restraining order request Monday."

What the hell does this mean?

― Graham (graham), Friday, 7 February 2003 11:37 (twenty-two years ago)

restraining order: a court order to stay a set distance/refrain from contacting person X basically forever, or face jail. My sister had to get one to apply to ex boyf who turned stalkerish.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 7 February 2003 11:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, but I meant like, by who against who? Has something happened that means they need one?

― Graham (graham), Friday, 7 February 2003 11:42 (twenty-two years ago)

The reporter has, no surprises here, used the wrong words whilst trying to be all legal and probably means the judge is considering an injunction against the school district certifying anybody as valedictorian until the grade is ruled upon.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 7 February 2003 11:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I guessed that's what they might mean.

― Graham (graham), Friday, 7 February 2003 11:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow Gabbneb, small world, eh? Any idea what she's up to now? (She was a freshman when I was a senior, so I didn't know her as well as I could have. Awfully sweet person, I thought.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 February 2003 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

suzy that's amazying I had an ass principal, too!

― g.cannon (gcannon), Friday, 7 February 2003 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh dear god.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 February 2003 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

"amazying"

― g.cannon (gcannon), Friday, 7 February 2003 14:18 (twenty-two years ago)

(assistant principal obv, that's just what my mum wrote as the abbreviation on her excuse notes to wind the guy up)

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 7 February 2003 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm sympathetic to Laura. I hated getting high marks (and often no comments) on papers I hacked out in an hour the night before they were due. I've never gone so far as to ask for a lower grade, but I have made fun of my professors/teachers for being too generous.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 7 February 2003 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

(in my case he rilly was an ass, btw, wasn't nitpicking! and your mom sounds like a trip)

― g.cannon (gcannon), Friday, 7 February 2003 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

*grin* Thanks, Amateurist - it feels good to know I'm not the only one.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Friday, 7 February 2003 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Amateurist and Laura, you are both mad. The whole point about being clever is to be able to hack things out in no time at all and still get A grades!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 7 February 2003 18:51 (twenty-two years ago)

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