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11-21-2010, 01:16 PM
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OT, but is graduating with above a 4.0 that big a deal, especially when so many districts have weighted almost every single class?
Many families who have had children go missing make enormous efforts to make sure the missing child isn't forgotten. It's just much easier to stay in the spotlight when you're affluent and white.
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It is at MBHS, and it means she loaded her schedule with APs. It's a public school, but it IS a difficult school. I know she was in the NHS and the math honor society, and a couple of others. Basically, yes, she was a very hard worker, and her academic achievements were something to be proud of.
I've heard this many times over the years, and my response is, this isn't a fair world, and yes being white and pretty helped her stay in the news. It's naive to think it didn't. But that doesn't mean she didn't deserve the attention/sympathy/work her family did to find her.
PS-The movie is on Lifetime.
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11-21-2010, 01:50 PM
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It is at MBHS, and it means she loaded her schedule with APs. It's a public school, but it IS a difficult school. I know she was in the NHS and the math honor society, and a couple of others. Basically, yes, she was a very hard worker, and her academic achievements were something to be proud of.
But that doesn't mean she didn't deserve the attention/sympathy/work her family did to find her.
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I'm quite familiar with the concept of weighted GPAs and what you have to do to get them, LOL. I went to an extremely competitive public HS where it was completely possible to get a 5.0, so if you had a 4.1 or even a 4.5, it was no big thing. I graduated with a 4.5 and I probably was in the top 10% of the class, not in the top 1% or even 3%. We didn't have grade inflation, everyone took AP and IB classes, even as freshmen.
Everyone who goes missing deserves the attention/sympathy/work their families and communities do to find them.
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11-21-2010, 01:55 PM
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I'm quite familiar with the concept of weighted GPAs and what you have to do to get them, LOL. I went to an extremely competitive public HS where it was completely possible to get a 5.0, so if you had a 4.1 or even a 4.5, it was no big thing. I graduated with a 4.5 and I probably was in the top 10% of the class, not in the top 1% or even 3%. We didn't have grade inflation, everyone took AP and IB classes, even as freshmen.
Everyone who goes missing deserves the attention/sympathy/work their families and communities do to find them.
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Great. Good for you and your high school. As I said, we went to a competitive high school, and she worked hard. She absolutely earned the right to be proud of her achievements. It's still weird to me that people so want to downplay that.
Right.
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11-21-2010, 01:58 PM
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Great. Good for you and your high school. As I said, we went to a competitive high school, and she worked hard. She absolutely earned the right to be proud of her achievements. It's still weird to me that people so want to downplay that.
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No one wants to downplay it. You're the one who brought up AP classes and how your high school was oh-so-competitive. You're not the only one who went to a good high school.
Just shut the fuck up. You're sounding like an idiot. I hope they resolve this case today so you'll be quiet.
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11-21-2010, 02:01 PM
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No one wants to downplay it.
Just shut the fuck up. You're sounding like an idiot. I hope they resolve this case today so you'll be quiet.
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Your repeating that it's so easy to get these grades made it seem like you think it's no big deal. Also, the fact that you asked if it was "that big a deal?"
Sorry for misinterpreting that, though I do regret to inform you that you DON'T have the say on who has to "shut the fuck up". I would be ecstatic if you, for instance, would "just shut the fuck up", but alas, this is a messageboard, and that's not the way it works. 
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11-21-2010, 02:03 PM
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Your repeating that it's so easy to get these grades made it seem like you think it's no big deal. Also, the fact that you asked if it was "that big a deal?"
Sorry for misinterpreting that, though I do regret to inform you that you DON'T have the say on who has to "shut the fuck up". I would be ecstatic if you, for instance, would "just shut the fuck up", but alas, this is a messageboard, and that's not the way it works. |
WAAAAAHMBULANCE.
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11-21-2010, 02:04 PM
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WAAAAAHMBULANCE.
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Ok, I'm playing one round.
Really? Your last post was "wahhh shut the fuck up". Really?
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