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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Awesome! A brag in the guise of a dismissal.  Well played, OP![/quote]

Not the OP, but I'm pretty sure that wasn't a brag at all.

[b]Getting all 'P's isn't really something to brag about. [/b] I think OP was complaining about how inane the system is.[/quote]

Why not? My kids haven't ever gotten all Ps.[/quote]

That is pretty bad?  Or pretty good?  Or pretty confusing?

Wonder if the other countries in the world pussyfoot around giving grades to students!

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Precisely, it's all a bunch cr@p. Does this remind anyone else of Kurt Vonnegut's short story 
"Harrison Bergeron" from the book "Welcome to the Monkey House"?

[i]"It is the year 2081. Because of Amendments to the Constitution, every American is fully equal, meaning that no one is smarter, better-looking, stronger, or faster than anyone else. The Handicapper General and a team of agents ensure that the laws of equality are enforced. The government forces citizens to wear "handicaps" (a mask if they are too handsome or beautiful, earphones with deafening radio signals to make intelligent people unable to concentrate and form thoughts, and heavy weights to slow down those who are too strong or fast)."[/i]

I remember reading this as satire in high school twenty years ago. Will the works of Vonnegut, Orwell and Huxley be moved from fiction to non-fiction in another twenty? Let's hope not.

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