FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for September 15, 2010
Transcript:
Paige: Mom! Mom! Jason got an A-Double-plus on his math test! Isn't that great?! Isn't that exciting?! Isn't that the most wonderful news?! Andy: Paige, it's so nice to see you rooting for your brother for a change. Paige: What are you talking about? This sinks the twerp's average like a brick. Jason: Someone cut me, please. Andy: Have you two ever been happy at the same time?
rayannina about 14 years ago
Sure they’ve been happy at the same time – when something bad happens to Peter.
dhubb about 14 years ago
@Nabuquduriuzhur You can if you hack the school computers.
cdward about 14 years ago
The Valedictorian and Salutatorian at our local school both had averages over 100% at our local school. How? They do 100% and then are allowed to do more than required (extra credit) which goes on their records.
twj0729 about 14 years ago
“Sinks the twerps average” very funny!
nayland about 14 years ago
Some students graduate with 4.25+ average because as cdward said, they get extra credit and/or do college courses. First time I seen it I thought it was a typo, but it’s getting pretty common in Michigan.
boy123 about 14 years ago
this comic resembels lisa’s brain from the simpsons
Sandfan about 14 years ago
After reading about and seeing high school grads who are functionally illiterate, you have to wonder about the grading system. Maybe an A-double-plus is a college admission killer.
GeraldTarrant about 14 years ago
It’s possible to go up to a 5.00 these days with weighted grades.
starlilies about 14 years ago
At my daughter’s High School, AP and IB classes (college courses) are graded on a higher scale (up to 5.0) so it is possible to graduate with more than a 4.0 average.
kane2742 about 14 years ago
@Nabuquduriuzhur: In my high school’s GPA system, an A was 5.0, Bs were 4.0, etc., and some classes were weighted, adding something like 0.05 to your GPA per weighted class. I graduated with somewhere around a 5.2 or 5.3 and was still fourth in my class. That’s still not as weird as my junior high (different school district), where an A+ was (I think) 12, A was 11, A- was 10, etc. It was kind of messed up, especially since different teachers had different standards for what got a + or -. (For one teacher, only 100%+ was an A+, for another 98+ got an A+, and so on.)
kab2rb about 14 years ago
Isn’t the grade what student’s would be in called Gifted? Scoring that high?
Rakkav about 14 years ago
Argue over the percentages all you want. I remember (now) getting a nice number of those A++’s: pleasant experiences all.
It was the B’s (let alone lower) that made me want to commit hari-kari. And my aptitudes being what they were, I had enough of those to drag my average down more than I liked…
Rockingwoman about 14 years ago
I had a 3.9 grade point average. That 1 B almost did me in. I feel his pain. LOL
josh_bisbee about 14 years ago
In my school, you can have a 5.0 average. if you’re in honors classes, you get more in your average than you would for the same grade in a normal class.
For example, an A will give you 4.0 for that class. In an honors class, though, that same A will give you 5.0
Donald Sluter Premium Member about 14 years ago
I go to a state university, and an A and an A+ are both worth 4 points toward your GPA. The sad fact for all of the obsessive overachievers is that after college, no one ever looks at your GPA.
penguin56 over 8 years ago
The handle on the coffee cup switched sides