<p>I have a huge problem. I am Indian and my final grade for freshman English was an 89. How do I tell my patents I got a B? Pls help</p>
<p>If you are really concerned, see if you can have your teacher help you. They can sit down with your parents and explain that it is nothing to be ashamed of.</p>
<p>Buy them dinner, they’ll be like, what’s wrong? And then you can tell them in a public place where it’ll be slightly more mortifying for your parents to start screaming at you. I’ve gone through this a couple times in middle school, although being in high school, they might be even more angry with you.</p>
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Tell them your spelling stopped you from getting an A</p>
<p>In all seriousness though just say “Mom & Dad, I got a B in English”</p>
<p>Well it’s too late. My parents found out. They shouted. I’m grounded and can’t watch any tv the entire summet. I also can’t play any sports so no more golf and tennis :(</p>
<p>I also begged my teacher for extra credit but she said no</p>
<p>I believe this is what we call an overreaction.</p>
<p>Nah, it’s just stereotypical Asian parenting. My parents did this a couple times, too.</p>
<p>Over an 89? Lord. </p>
<p>^Yup.</p>
<p>@mrnephew Are you Asian? </p>
<p>Yes, and a first generation immigrant, too.</p>
<p>Oh. That must really suck. What year are you?</p>
<p>I hate it when Asian parents are like this. I’m asian too, and even when I brought home multiple failed calculus tests (I’m talking 50s here, like flat Fs), they gave me whatever advice they could to help boost my abysmal calculus skills. It’s one thing if the kid is lazy, but if the student is actually trying, parents should be helpful smh</p>
<p>Ask them whether they would have done this if you got a 90 instead of an 89. Numerically, if an 89 is your lowest grade, you are doing exceptionally well in school. Also, at my school it is policy that teachers aren’t allowed to give 84s and 89s due to second and first honors reasons. 2nd honors is all classes 85 and above and first honors is all classes 90 and above. If you have an 84.1 you’ll get an 85. If you have an 83.7 the situation is a bit strange, because it would be cruel to take away .7 points away from you (sort of), but you are getting a huge boost from a 1.3 point gain.</p>
<p>But by that logic, it would be cruel to have a cutoff line for the people just close but not there.</p>
<p>No, because it is normal to lose .4 points if you have say a 92.4 in the class and it is rounded to a 92. If you have a 92.6, you get a 93, so over time (if the 85 90 thing wasn’t in place) it should even out. With the 85 90 thing in place, some kids are just given an extra boost if they are borderline for getting 2nd or 1st honors, which is constituted as being between 83.5 and 85 or 88.5 and 90. Because of rounding, they thought no one should lose more than say .499999 points of credit for work they did in the class.</p>
<p>My parents would still have been mad but not overreacting as much because a 90 is an A- leaving me with a 4.0 gpa. Also, if I had gotten .5 more in the class, I would have gotten an A due to rounding</p>
<p>That’s a very complex system. I like the simple no rounding thing.</p>
<p>Curious, are you Asian or Indian? I just noticed this on another thread…</p>
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