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WCDT Strips 2996-3000 (6th to 10th July 2015)
amykathleen:
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--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 07 Jul 2015, 11:44 ---Did you guys know each other in high school?
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Actually no, we met in our mid-30s.
My wife was also a non-stereotypical cheerleader in that she was also her class valedictorian, despite graduating two years early.
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My class had a lot of overachievers... there was a six-way tie for valedictorian. :psyduck: I was seventh, because I chose to take a computer programming course instead of AP Biology (the way they counted it, AP courses counted for extra).
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This kind of thing happened so many times at my school that they eliminated class rank, starting with the year before mine. I hate it when forms ask for my class rank, because I'm just like... well, I know I was in the top 10%, because I got a medal, and I know I was lower than the top 2%, because I didn't get a gold stole (is that how this word is spelled?) or a special certificate, but I can't tell you anything more detailed than that, so... sorry?
cesium133:
--- Quote from: Mr_Rose on 07 Jul 2015, 15:15 ---So… did they make them all give valedictory speeches and make you salutatorian as well?
(For those playing along at home, being made valedictorian is how high school teachers punish the brainy kids for giving them more paperwork to do. I understand the pin on the badge is unnecessarily long and sharp…)
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No, none of the students were allowed/required to give a speech.
--- Quote from: amykathleen on 07 Jul 2015, 15:28 ---This kind of thing happened so many times at my school that they eliminated class rank, starting with the year before mine. I hate it when forms ask for my class rank, because I'm just like... well, I know I was in the top 10%, because I got a medal, and I know I was lower than the top 2%, because I didn't get a gold stole (is that how this word is spelled?) or a special certificate, but I can't tell you anything more detailed than that, so... sorry?
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I found the class rank think kind of useless, considering I was lowered on the ranking because I took a class I wanted to take rather than the class that I was expected to take.
Thrillho:
Class ranking seems like a bad idea to me.
Penquin47:
Class rank is such a silly thing anyway. I was top 10% of my class but not top 5%. Had I been in my brother's grade, with the same transcript I had, I'd have been challenging for valedictorian/salutatorian. Had I gone to another school in the city, I'd probably have had better grades and less competition, because my school was known as being one of the ones for "smart kids".
Had I gone to school in Texas all four years, it might have helped or hurt. See in Texas, you're given a numerical grade 0-100. In Maryland where I did my first two years, it's letter grades. So in computing my GPA and class rank, they had to convert that to a number. 95 was picked as average for A, 85 for B, etc. (Dunno what they did with Fs, as it wasn't relevant to me.) So if I got an 89 in a class I got screwed, whereas if I got a 90 I got helped. Dunno how it would've shaken out as I never cared whether I had a 90 or a 98 in Maryland since it didn't matter.
And then there's class size. My class was 575 students. The school I teach at, we tend to graduate 50 students a year. Which salutatorian's more impressive?
Perfectly Reasonable:
--- Quote from: Energia on 07 Jul 2015, 01:59 ---Given how precious a word-count is in a comic, could Faye be selling banana smoothies from a newly-welded up gizmo soon?
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Faye's banana smoothies are not merely a dessert. They are Performance Art. And a metaphor for the political process in Central American countries. The Ultimate Murder Chassis will be snake-shaped and able to make coconut smoothies. Pineapple smoothies. Durian smoothies. Faye style.
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