Peanuts by Charles Schulz for April 24, 2018

“B” was for “Blah” in my old school system. “C” was for “Count yourself Lucky”, and “D” was for “Doomed, because there’s no such thing as D anymore”!

Is that really true? No more “D’s”? Hmmm…

I always got B’s and C’s even though my intelligence proved that I could be of the A’s and B’s variety. It’s not like I didn’t try though, my parents didn’t have enough more that could have sent me to somewhere more challenging. Public school stifled me and in the end, it’s currently hurting my adulthood.

I remember my mom telling me that Cs meant Average, and Average was normal. She didn’t want normal, though. Anything below an A- wasn’t anywhere good enough.

I prayed for a C.

My dad had been a teacher in his earlier life. He said it was okay to get a C if that was the best you could do. But if you ever got an A or a B in a subject, you’d better not bring home a C in it.

I got As in a few subjects, but I was mostly a B student because I didn’t see the point in ‘showing my work.’ Except, I never got better than a C in handwriting. Many years later, I found out I was naturally left-handed but had been coerced into using my right.

For some C’s could be a motivator to do better, for others, it meant you got to play sports.

For Charlie Brown, it just confirms that he’s a …………….. La Who ……..La Her.

Nominate that man for president!

With grades like that, he should be a scuba-diver. They’re below “C” level.

At least you are consistent.

Oh Chuck, someone has to be average. Think of yourself as the top of the bell curve.

What difference does it make? You’re going to grow up to be a barber, just like your dad.

Back in the “Peanuts Begins” days Charlie Brown that grade was known as the “Gentleman’s C.”

Not to worry, Charlie Brown. Sometimes, grades are not indicative of retention – and as Hamlet observed, “that’s the rub.” I was an average student in high school; an A here or there, more B’s than A’s, and the occasional “Gentleman’s C’s.” (Thank you, I-(Heart)-Peanuts.) However, once I went to college, something very weird happened. I earned my Bachelor’s summa cum laude and a post-graduate magna cum laude. But in either case, it wasn’t the grade I earned, it was what I learned! So I must respectfully disagree with you, NYCKNAME; I think Charlie Brown will do very well in his own time.

Not only did Charlie Brown get a bunch of “C’s”, he also only ever got rocks…….

You’re an average genius CB.

You’re not alone, Charlie Brown. I got straight C’s in my first semester in college.

Well, at least that’s not failure. Many of my college grades were Cs.

Two more Cs and he will have covered the seven Cs

There’s so much more to life than grades. It’s a shame so many of us were raised to think our value was in our grades. Unfortunately, the later efforts to correct that problem has brought us other problems. People who have been poisoned with a “your value is in your grades” aren’t good candidates for teaching the next generation that “your value is in your character” (or anything else).