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pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Akima on 21 Aug 2014, 15:30 ---
--- Quote from: Grognard on 20 Aug 2014, 20:29 ---MY children, however, are required to be in the top 5% of their class.
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My parents would not have given you any argument. Except they'd have regarded your 5% as ridiculously over-liberal. :laugh:
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Most of my school classes were 20 pupils, so the top 5% would be top of the class. If that was insufficiently ambitious, I guess your classes were bigger than mine!
GarandMarine:
My parents were just pleased that I passed >.>; I was... how do you say... a problem child? Albeit I completed High School in three years instead of four, but I don't think I ever passed a math class with higher then a C+. English and Sciences were in the Bs, then some art and PE that don't count. School was boring. The Marine Corps seemed much more exciting at the time.
Method of Madness:
I stopped taking school seriously once I stopped liking it in middle school. High school was fun, but I took very few classes that really challenged me and while I got pretty good grades, I probably could've done better if I'd...I dunno, tried. Same with college, really, I majored in something interesting but ultimately useless (BA in Classics, minor in philosophy). I finished four years ago and I've dropped out of both education and law grad programs once I realized I couldn't see myself happy in those fields. In regards to my parents, I used to be the type that would get mad at myself for getting a B, and my parents would tell me to be easy on myself, probably because a B was still good and I usually got As. In high school I stopped minding getting Bs and that continued into college, I guess. Not sure where I'm going with this but four years later, here I am with...a pretty good life, I guess? But nothing I could really consider a "career". Hell, I've never even had a full-time job (although my current job is pretty close to one).
ChaoSera:
--- Quote from: cesium133 on 21 Aug 2014, 16:01 ---About your signature:
--- Quote ---"I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or god persuade a thousand cats to do anything at the same time" -- Neil Gaiman
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Have you tried opening a can of cat food?
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Even then, with a thousand cats the chances are good that some of them will not notice, not care, not like that particular brand or simply be asleep.
The Seldom Killer:
--- Quote from: Grognard on 20 Aug 2014, 20:29 ---MY children, however, are required to be in the top 5% of their class.
Otherwise, I will restrict them from all other non-academic activities.
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Be careful. Non-academic activities are important in supporting the progress of academic activities. Play for children being very different than it is for adults.
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