#grades

I had the lunchbox that cleared the cafeteria. I was very unpopular in the early grades. Because I hung out with my grandfather, I started to bring my lunchbox with sardine sandwiches and calamari that I would eat off my fingers like rings. I was also always reeking of garlic. ↗

— Rachael Ray

#always #because #bring #cleared #early

In 1941 I finished at Allison Intermediate School (grades 7-9), and started at North High School, commuting by bicycle about 5 miles from home to school. ↗

— Vernon L. Smith

#allison #bicycle #commuting #finished #grades

Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose. ↗

— Carrie P. Snow

#appeals #choose #degrades #deprives #people

Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians. ↗

— Christina Hoff Sommers

#activities #grades #make #more #powerful

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#degrades #feared #most #such #suffering

Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny. ↗

— Ben Stein

#bit #child #child abuse #children #crushing

My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#background #because #came #cared #education

I mask my hate. I mask my pain. One thing that I can't mask is my dwindling grade point average." -Dreams, Smiles, and Bloody Tears ↗

— Chamera Sampson

#mask #teen #dreams

I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years," she announced with some small sense of achievement. "I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#grades #grading #teachers #teaching #education

As you work to become a better student, remember that learning is far more important than the numbers on your transcript. I know it can be hard sometimes to remember what you're in school for. In some places, students go crazy over a tenth of a point - but this is an unhealthy and unsustainable way to manage your education. The real reason you're in school is to grow as a person and fulfill your potential. ↗

— Stefanie Weisman

#learning #students #education