<p>It's safe to assume that everyone here is a pretty conscientious student - otherwise, I don't think you'd be hanging around HSL on College Confidential. However, are you ever shocked by how poorly some students at your school do, compared to you? </p>
<p>Like, I know kids with 0.9 GPAs. I know I'm in no place to judge, but I find it so curious and slightly jarring. Or do you just accept that there's always going to be "those" types of students at your school?</p>
<p>I go to a pretty ghetto school. I kinda just assume that there’s always gonna be “those” kids.</p>
<p>Freshman year, I knew someone with a .2 GPA. I also knew people who were thrilled to get Ds. Those people make up 75% of my school.</p>
<p>Our school basically tries to filter us with different courses (CP, Honors, and AP) but its not a perfect system - I still have people in my AP English class and AP Science courses that do not do any homework, and who are pretty much failing with low 20’s… </p>
<p>So I’d say my school is maybe 80-85% students who just don’t care (which is great for me, I guess … higher class rank, woo hoo!)</p>
<p>I hear people say as long as they have a D, they<code>re perfectly happy. And that</code>s as long as it`s the lowest D possible, not even a high D.
I live in a rural county, where half the kids are pretty country/rednecky and could care less about school, as long as it doesn`t interfere with their hunting time.</p>
<p>I know some people who are thrilled to get a 70 because it takes a lot of effort just to get that far.
I also know a lot of people who get 70s because they go shopping after school instead of studying.
But they don’t go to my school (selective academic private), and I’m not shocked by them.
I do count my blessings.</p>
<p>I usually don’t think about it much since it’s none of my business, but I do find it ridiculously strange. like, what do you plan on doing later? high school parties (and college parties…) end when hs/college ends. what then?</p>
<p>it’s a bit sad :(</p>
<p>Sometimes I’m shocked. Like today, we had a reading assignment on the English Civil War and I thought it was super easy, but everyone in class complained to the teacher about how hard it was. She agreed and told them to ''just do your best because colleges like seeing effort"</p>
<p>I feel bad for those kids. I feel bad for America’s future.</p>
<p>^But the future of America also has people like us.</p>
<p>^ yes, but we’re a minority</p>
<p>The world’s most powerful people (legislators, world leaders, diplomats, etc) are a mere few out of the masses. It only takes a minority.</p>
<p>^ But people with common sense and good intentions are not a minority</p>
<p>True <code>dat. But still, hopefully we</code>ll be the ones in the government, not the effortless straight D students.</p>
<p>…George W. Bush
…Lord help us all.</p>
<p>Philosophers, scientists, and other intellectuals should run the government</p>
<p>Most people in my school want to complete the basic graduation recs with Cs and nothing more.</p>
<p>Where i live in the Deep south, most people have a 2.0 or near there. However, many are the hardest workers and strongest facers to adversaries i have ever seen. Just because you dont care about high school doesnt make you ignornant. It means you have a low GPA. I know a guy who can quote things accuratelty about any subject for hours yet has a 2.3. I also know 3.5+ who just try hard with CC mentality to get ahead in College and then TOP 50!!! However, give them manual labor and they will shrik away from duty</p>
<p>I tutor students at my school, and this kid couldn’t seem to understand why his mom wasn’t satisfied with the fact that he had gotten a C on a test… I mean, I’m content with a C here and there in a difficult class, but I know that I should be striving for more than that. He genuinely seemed to think that was a great grade…</p>
<p>I know someone with a 0.0 GPA and plenty of people in Algebra I freshman year needed a calculator to multiply single-digit numbers.</p>
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<p>I wish this was true.</p>