Why do upper middle class parents allow their teens to get B's?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Allow? Ha! What do you do follow them to class and turn in the damn paper for them? sit next to them during the test?

This may have been the case 10 or more years ago but now everything is online and updated daily. It's so easy to track the grades and isolate issues for the tutor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Outside of say high-level chemistry, physics and calculus, there's no reason healthy upper middle class teens should be getting B's.

The Chicago Manual of Style, one of the more widely used style guides in the United States, says:

Capital letters used as words, numerals used as nouns, and abbreviations usually form the plural by adding s. To aid comprehension, lowercase letters form the plural with an apostrophe and an s.

Sorry, OP but your English undermines your point.

I'm not the PP, but thanks for this reminder. I would have written it without the apostrophe, but I see it so often with the apostrophe that I would have doubted myself.

However, PP's point it not really undermined by this. I believe PP's point was not that every healthy kid should be intelligent enough to get As, but rather than they should work hard enough to get the grade. It seems PP feels that with enough hard work any neuro-typical child should be able to get As, and questions why some parents don't insist on this hard work from their children.

[Anonymous]

The stupidity on this board is astounding.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"allow"

I am working hard to make sure that when my son leaves the house, he is ready to live the next stage of his life without me but wants to come visit some times.

1. "allow" is a word that makes less and less sense as time goes on.

2. If you think you can control everything with your children, you are mistaken.

Amongst my kids' friends getting a B is embarrassing. These aren't tiger cubs, these are popular and involved rich kids gunning for strong colleges.

And you think the only reason your children chose such friends is your parenting? Congratulations on a job well done.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My oldest works her tail off to keep usually straight As but has had the odd teacher that is just a screwup - grading oddly or tanking kids. (Twice she received the exact grade to the decimal on an essay to bump her average to the next lowest lettter grade - no rubric, no comments, no markings, nothing to indicate how the subjective grade was decided on) Whatever. My kid has an awesome attitude and a self-motivated work ethic and that's what will make her successful in life. I think she's too hard on herself but I'm just the laid back parent!

Yes, if your child has less than an A, it must mean that the teacher is a "screwup." Right. You are doing your child no service by teaching them this attitude.

Neither of the above posters, but there are teachers that grade quite strangely. DD's teacher for AP Lang told the class, direct quote, that he "didn't believe in giving As until the end of the year." It was a very tough class and a daily source of frustration for my DD, but she came out at the end of the year a much stronger student, despite having received her first grade lower than an A in an English class. So there's that, OP. DD got more out of the class with her B than most of her friends that flew through the same course with an A from another teacher. A does not necessarily equate to success.

[Anonymous]

I was a B/C high school student but a late bloomer and did not blossom academically until sophomore year of college. I went to a top 15 law school and am a successful, well paid lawyer married to another successful late bloomer. I think the key is knowing where your strengths and passions are. I was terrible in math but strong in other areas. This thread is really dumb, started by someone who wants to be upper class but can't figure out how to get there, looking from the outside in. OP, you have my sympathies.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I love all of you conformists, you are hilarious!

I went to Langley and grew up as upperclass as it gets. I got Cs and Ds and then went ahead and graduated from the illustrious WVU with a bullshit communications degree, i pretty much learned nothing. I promptly put my fully developed social skills to work and entered in sales. Im 38 and making more money than surgeons and lawyers. I hit accelerators back in October and am on target to make 720k this year.

I probably could have skipped college all together and be in the same place today. You either got it, or you don't.

Impressive. What are you selling?

Pharmaceuticals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love all of you conformists, you are hilarious!

I went to Langley and grew up as upperclass as it gets. I got Cs and Ds and then went ahead and graduated from the illustrious WVU with a bullshit communications degree, i pretty much learned nothing. I promptly put my fully developed social skills to work and entered in sales. Im 38 and making more money than surgeons and lawyers. I hit accelerators back in October and am on target to make 720k this year.

I probably could have skipped college all together and be in the same place today. You either got it, or you don't.

Impressive. What are you selling?

Pharmaceuticals.

legal?

[Anonymous]

Remember the good old days when a "B" was above average and an "A" was something special. A "C" used to be average. Now if you get a "B" people think you are a total loser. So stupid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love all of you conformists, you are hilarious!

I went to Langley and grew up as upperclass as it gets. I got Cs and Ds and then went ahead and graduated from the illustrious WVU with a bullshit communications degree, i pretty much learned nothing. I promptly put my fully developed social skills to work and entered in sales. Im 38 and making more money than surgeons and lawyers. I hit accelerators back in October and am on target to make 720k this year.

I probably could have skipped college all together and be in the same place today. You either got it, or you don't.

Impressive. What are you selling?

Pharmaceuticals.

legal?

It was a joke. Who knows. PP never answered, so maybe it's true.

[Anonymous]

I grew up poor, never studied, and got all A's.

[Anonymous]

Is any of this shit getting anyone into TJ?

[Anonymous]

Meh. Stop living vicariously thru your kids, bro.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Allow? Ha! What do you do follow them to class and turn in the damn paper for them? sit next to them during the test?

This may have been the case 10 or more years ago but now everything is online and updated daily. It's so easy to track the grades and isolate issues for the tutor.

You don't even have to track, we get an interim every two weeks for every class whether we want it or not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I grew up poor, never studied, and got all A's.

Were you well prepared for college?