“I hurt when I get a bad grade! You feel like you’re doing all that hard work for nothing. Then you don’t want to work more, if you’re just going to get bad grades. Whenever my grades get low I feel like dropping out of school.” Page 163.
This girl would get really disappointed when she received her report card with low grades. Yes, she probably did work hard for them and everybody gets bad grades once in a while. Teachers should try better to emphasize that grades aren’t everything, learning and effort is more important.
I think that professors should write on the report cards something like: “grade does not reflect the time and effort put into class” or something like that, that shows the teacher understands how hard you worked and your grade should have been better but you had a low test grade, etc. I remember in high school (and even now in college) when I get a low quiz or test score, I am immediately ashamed and I feel like crying (sometimes I still do). I quickly hide the test and wish that the class was over, and I just zone out for the rest of class.
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