really? ive found that when the prof marks stuff i get a better mark.The TAs have seomthing the prove, where as the profs will hand out Bs like candy if they can tell tha somewhere in my incoherant ramblings that i understand the concept. TAs are all hung up on style technical details. It is hardt to get an A from a prof though but since I am not an A student, I and quite content with my Bs lol. They keep me within grabbing distance of Cum Laude, and well within the honours program

i so hate you right now lol.im hanging on my my B by the skin of my teeth. Stuff gets marked differently up here though. apparently Canadain starndards are higher than american ones. Up here if youre getting a C then youre meeting expectations. Anything above that is exceeding expecations.and you can still pass with a D lol. to get an A level GPA you have to be damn near genius. there aren't many of them. most people in my program are sitting around my level.

that reminds of my high school in away.i went to public school but it was in a wealthy part of town and there was a lot of pressure on students to go to univerisity. College (or community collage to you americans lol) was barely even mentinoed as an option unless you were in a Sp.Ed and there was like one booklet on vocational training in the guidance office. something like 75%-80% of graduates go on to post secondary education, the vast majority to univeristy. Apparently we had one of the highest rates in the GTA.

It was good for some, like me who needed the peer pressure to keep my act together but i know a lot of people who vrashed and burned or got completly discouraged because university wasn't for them but few other options were shown to them by administration. Thats what happened to my sister. She dropped out in the 11th grade, and worked for nearly 3 years before going to community college.She never did get her high school diploma though because it was such a horrible experience for her.

I don't blame her at all, teachers made her feel strupid because she couldn't do university prep work, the concept of electing NOT to go to university just seemed idiotic to them. Morons. Not every one can get a degree! we need mechanics and medical techs and vet nurses and physical therepists and the thousands of other jobs that require hands on education rather theortical. gah.

i like your friend already. I would love to go in to my old elementry school with a copy of my transcripts and yelled 'FUCK YOU ALL MORONS! Look at my GPA bitches' lol. as an alternative, I'm getting a fuck you to the education systeam tattooed on my person when I'm done school. It's going to be a bumblebee because of that myth that according to the laws of aerodynamics, bees can't fly but they do it anyway because they don't know they can't.

i think its because most teachers go i nto te industry because they like knowledge. the problem with that is that they can't understand people who don't like learning or have throuble doing it. My cousin's husband is a princiapl at an elementry school and he told me that the best teachers are the ones who have to work hard for thier grades, but teachers collages are getting so cometeive that only the smartest students are getting in. That means that the people who are teaching are the ones who never had any trouble leanring so they don't know how to teach someone with issue.

(does that make any sense? it seems kind of wordy to me.)

My 5th grade teacher was the exact kind of teacher. She gave me the courage to keep trying.She got my through the 5th grade, and then her support got my through the 6th grade. I transfer to s chool with a better Sp. Ed. department during the 6th grade,I didn't get to talk to her anymore but her message stuck with me. I barely finished the 7th and 8th grade but i did it. In high school I finally 'got it' and i actually liked school but if it wasn't for Mrs.Guriererre I would have given up trying long before then and I wouldn't be in University now.

She was such a cool teacher! A former hippie/truck stop waitress/jouralist. She wore love beads and east indian skirts with jiggles on them every day lol

education almost everywhere has gone down the crapper. its enough to make a person want to homeschool all the kids in thier extended family.Even the private schools that supposedly cater is free thinking or creativity are becomg very academic oreiented and isolating kids who don't fit the mould

Well its not that bad in my area. A bunch of middle and high schools in the bad parts of TO have police inspections though. My high school put in cameras when I was in the 10th grade and there was a big hoopla about it. The adminisration had to do it because the OACs were lighting garbage cans on fire to postpone tests.

We had a few bomb threats but they were all bullshit. That was in '99/00. im sure things have changed since then.

our record was 6 alarms in one day and thers only 5 periods lol. It got to a point where teachers would let us carry out backpacks and jackets in to class or let us make locket stops if they were on the way out because it was too cold be outside without them.It was around that time that the grocery store across the street became a popular place to go during lunch, cheaper food (but no hot station) and no fire alarms lol

lol lucky. we only missed the odd day and half day. our bomb threat did make the news though. That would be the day I was legitimatly home sick