A child's performance in school isn't determined how smart the student is, but how much effort.
I've known some kids that are straight A students, but give them a problem not in the book and they're clueless.

A grade doesn't accurately
reflect how much teh student knows, but just how hard they work and get their assignments and tests done. You cram for a test, get a A on it the next
day, and you don't have to worry about it anymore. The facts from your head vanish. What do you learn from it? Not that much.
All my friends think I'm crazy smart because I'm getting straight A's, know more about teh stuff being taught than the class, know how to solve a
rubic's cube, and stuff like that. Really, I don't know all that much. It's just that I work harder than most people and get graded accordingly to
it.
My math (algebra 1) class is an example of how students can go bad. I've studied alot of math during th summer, so I'm supposed to be in a class 2
years ahead (the counselors won't listen to me, @#$^). I'm one of teh few students that's getting an A in that class. Almost half the class is
failing, which in incredible, because most of the stuff that's being taught everyone's learned the year before. I was helping the teacher passing
out the corrected tests (since I always finish my work first, you know why

), and I saw what the scores were. The average is 55%. Extremely
dissapointing. They were simple equations to be solved like :
2x+1= 5
Alright, learning algebra is very difficult for majority of people, but come on!!!! Those problems were covered the year before, and yet, only half
the class knows it. It's not too hard to study for either. No one puts effort into it....
I know some people whose GPA is around 0.5.
[Edited on 11-21-03 by Saucerat]