Top 10 Reasons to Hate the School Grades

There certainly is a lot to stress about. There is a very fine line between the grades which you can achieve, and you can make a near miss simply by missing one tiny detail, which most people think nothing of in real-life applications. The consequences are all carried forward, affecting the subjects you can take next stage, the universities you go to, the degree you come out with, your attraction to employers. Realistically, you'll never do this perfectly, so one can worry constantly about what opportunities they'll lose if they forget one tiny aspect. Grading systems say nothing about true ability, but they can cause many people who are more than qualified for what they aspire to do miss out completely.

Exactly. I got a C once in math and my mom said "You have to improve your grade! Or else you won't be able to do the things you want blah blah blah! " I may not, but you don't have to stress me about it. I try my best to get good grades but the lessons are sometimes really hard. Some of the things in math aren't even really needed, like division, I don't think I'll ever have to divide anything but FOOD in my life. And what's the point of cursive when you may not even use it?

Even though I'm pretty much an A/B student, keeping grades up is still hell on Earth, and I also find it quite sad that so much pressure and misery is put on people over a few letters on a piece of paper that say nothing about the qualities that will get you far in the workplace. Passion? Teamwork? Willingness to help others? They sadly don't play a part in grades whatsoever.

I may be getting A's and B's but it was incredibly difficult considering literally all my classes are AP or honors (except for health because I want that out of the way). One of my teachers said that the letter grade doesn't matter, but that's really not true considering colleges look at these. It's kind of sad that school is more about how high your GPA can be rather than actually learning a lot.

The worst advice I ever got was: "Focus on learning, and the grades will follow." The grades did not follow.
If you want good grades, you have to study for good grades; if you want to learn, you have to study to learn. Although there is some overlap between them, these two things are very very different.
Actual understanding, which is supposed to be the point of school, unfortunately always loses to grades.

Exactly! We are supposed to be learning things we will use as an adult one day! But now we just memorize pointless facts for a test that doesn't determine intelligence! And in high school, these grades will determine your future. And grades also give a reason for parents to shame you over them! Please abolish this unfair grading system forever! Thank you!

In elementary school, it was about learning. And when you reach middle school, it becomes about passing and stressing yourself out. And in high school, if you mess up, your future is destroyed. And the pressure from our parents and teachers to do better is not making the situation any better.

Grades don't determine intelligence! School is supposed to be for learning useful things. But now it's all about memorizing pointless facts for a stupid test that doesn't determine intelligence. And grades give parents a reason to torture their kids.

I find it extremely BS that grades determine your future. School should be about learning the things that you will use in real life and deciding what career you want to be. But it's about memorizing a lot of information which most of you won't use in 10 years from now unless you want to major in it.

That's what I was thinking. School is both a jail and a hellhole.

They make me so stressed and make me not want to learn.

I like my Spanish teacher but her grading is a little unfair. She sometimes literally puts AUDIO ACTIVITIES in the 90% category. This makes my grade go down a lot and made me like her a little less.

Usually depends on the circumstances - it's especially ridiculous when grades are knocked down thanks to pretty insignificant things, like missing one lesson for a dentist's appointment or turning in just one little homework assignment a day late.

Sometimes even the work in class can be unfair. One time my Biology class took a big test just before grades came out, and a few of the questions were on material we hadn't covered in class, yet we were still expected to answer them. Nearly everybody got awful grades (and probably a nagging from their parents) thanks to that - luckily my grade wasn't too bad, but it was still horrifying to think that we were essentially being set up to fail the term.

I was recently graded a zero on an assignment THAT WAS NEVER EVEN ASSIGNED! And the assignment was supposed to be worth 1 point. Now my overall grade is at 40%. WHAT. THE. HECK! >:(

We study, but because of stress we forget what we actually learned, so it’s mainly stress and asking questions on class forum. The most annoying thing is when teacher are super nasty and they don’t help students, when they try to answer questions, when they’re not precisely sure about the answer. In a nutshell; school sucks.

Teachers think that if you get straight Ds or Fs, you will work at McDonalds

Writing a few letters on a dead peice of wood does not make you smart. YES. Can you believe it? It's so fascinating!

Me: *trades with a person next to me with science quizzes to check and grade, nothing but colored pencils.
Friend: *Hmmm, she got it all wrong. *crosses out all numbers of the test*
Me: *realizes that I got a 0/5, and put the paper upside down."

My period 5 class gave me a D when I did all my work but just because I did terrible on one assignment, and I literally tried, and it was posted in the gradebook like, 7 times, and I got a Z for all of them. It ended up as a D. I also have an E in period 6 when I have done all my work properly and for no apparent reason, I have an E. And yes, my school thinks that they should change F's to E's to sound less harsh but it still stresses us out. This won't make me want to get my grades up, neither will it get my hopes up of getting my grades up. Screw the school system.

True. It judges your personality, socialism, and how smart you are! Don’t let grades make who you are!

You need to take summer school if grades are bad enough