School Grades - Good, Medium, or Bad?
By Terri Doss
@gtdoss (1013)
United States
August 20, 2022 5:56pm CST
I didn't do so well in elementary, middle, or high school. My grades were kind of a mixture of good and bad, depending on what the subject was. I did great in English and Art and Physical Education, but I did pretty terribly at math, history, and science -- especially math!
I remember staring out the window in 6th grade and daydreaming about all sorts of things while my teacher, Mr. Meyers, droned on and on about algebra. I paid the price for that, though, in that I then couldn't understand higher math like trigonometry, calculus, and geometry.
That being said, what kinds of grades did you get in school? Were you better in some subjects than others? How did you feel about school over all?
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@RebeccasFarm (90474)
• Arvada, Colorado
21 Aug 22
I did okay nearly always As and Bs in elementary til I hit the 8th grade..algebra done me in.
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@RebeccasFarm (90474)
• Arvada, Colorado
21 Aug 22
@gtdoss Yes I was like..letters do not go with numbers lol
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@Torunn (8607)
• Norway
21 Aug 22
I got good notes in most subject except sports, all the way through my third year in university. Then I had to start doing more, and it took a year before I figure out how much and my grade went up again.
And as a former math teacher I do know that it's actually possible to teach algebra in a more interesting way than many do. Also there's plenty of research on how (or maybe mainly how not to) make the change from only numbers to letters. I can't remember that I ever wondered about that, but we had a good math teacher in secondary school.
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@Torunn (8607)
• Norway
22 Aug 22
@gtdoss Not wonderful, more inventive, since I get easily bored myself.
Teaching teacher students now. Hopefully I'll get them to understand that they need to have fun themselves teaching, at least every now and then. 'Cause if you don't have any fun, it'll be difficult to teach the kids that learning new stuff is fun.
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@FayeHazel (40243)
• United States
24 Aug 22
@gtdoss Ah ha ha I don't blame you there at all
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@cabuyogty (3061)
• Philippines
21 Aug 22
I have good grades when I was studying in elementary school and have medium grades when I was in high school 
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@sjvg1976 (41290)
• Delhi, India
21 Aug 22
I was good at my studies. I was among the toppers in the class. I was good, especially in Maths and Science. I never liked history and geography, they were so boring. Overall I used to get above 80% throughout my school time. In those days scoring 80% was difficult unlike these days.
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@gtdoss (1013)
• United States
21 Aug 22
Awesome! I used to hate history and geography as well in my younger days. Now I find them fascinating. I think a lot of it has to do with teachers and how interesting and inspiring they are, or not.
@gtdoss (1013)
• United States
21 Aug 22
How wonderful! You must have been an avid listener and reader as well.
@DaddyEvil (137634)
• United States
21 Aug 22
I loved school... I didn't particularly care for some of my teaches but I still did okay... mostly A minuses throughout.
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@DaddyEvil (137634)
• United States
21 Aug 22
@gtdoss Oh, yeah, there are a lot of people who feel like you do about school.
I still read books all the time and watch science videos online.
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@gtdoss (1013)
• United States
21 Aug 22
I was the opposite. I did really poorly in everything before high school, but then did really well in uni!
@petatonicsca (7070)
• Japan
23 Aug 22
I got super good grades except in PE and art, where I got Cs. I was sure not talented in those areas. I didn't like math either, but I was able to keep working. I dropped math as soon as I had all the required math.
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@gtdoss (1013)
• United States
23 Aug 22
PE and art were really the only places I exceled, also English. Everything else was either too complicated for me (math) or too boring for me (history).
@Beestring (14693)
• Hong Kong
21 Aug 22
I didn't do so well in primary school. In high school, I was doing pretty well in all subjects except physics.
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