#grades

I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out. ↗

— Kent McCord

#education #feel #grades #i #i feel

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

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

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'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#base #believer #early #first #get

A boy or girl who has gone through the eight grades should possess a complete, practical education and should have received special training in some specific line of work, fitting him or her to earn a livelihood. ↗

— Arthur Capper

#complete #earn #education #eight #fitting

Well, one of them is annual assessment in grades 3-8. It's integral to the implementation of everything. ↗

— Margaret Spellings

#assessment #everything #grades #implementation #integral

I was on the cheerleading squad and drama and the choir, but I was friends with everybody. I was not a partier. I was too Type A and crazy about my grades, but I was still there at everything. ↗

— Kristin Chenoweth

#choir #crazy #drama #everybody #everything

Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not only raises his position, but in effect lowers the position of others. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#almost #class #completely #effect #extra

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#forms #grades #higher #kind #lower