High school is still the same, and it sucks

[Monoriu]

The hive demands an 'A'.

The hive doesn't demand an A.  It demands an A in all 9 subjects that we took.

[Valmy]

Some of the folks dated, of course, and they eventually got married.

Were they as big a losers as the ones who played sports?

[Valmy]

The hive demands an 'A'.

The hive doesn't demand an A.  It demands an A in all 9 subjects that we took.

It just makes it worse though.  They cannot give everybody an A so the harder everybody works the harder it is to get one.

[MadImmortalMan]

When he says "office job" it's like he's saying "NFL Draft". 

When I say "office job" I generally mean something more akin to stepping in a bear trap.

[Monoriu]

Some of the folks dated, of course, and they eventually got married.

Were they as big a losers as the ones who played sports?

None of the best students dated.  The folks who dated were students in the middle of the league, or losers. 

[Monoriu]

The hive demands an 'A'.

The hive doesn't demand an A.  It demands an A in all 9 subjects that we took.

It just makes it worse though.  They cannot give everybody an A so the harder everybody works the harder it is to get one.

Grades are given on a relative basis in HK.  For As, I think it is top 5% of students in that subject.  There is no objective standard.  If you are better than the other 95%, you get an A.  But even if everybody does well, only the top 5% get As. 

[Monoriu]

When he says "office job" it's like he's saying "NFL Draft". 

When I say "office job" I generally mean something more akin to stepping in a bear trap.

That's certainly not what I meant 

[Valmy]

See Riley?  You could be going to school in Hong Kong.

[Valmy]

Grades are given on a relative basis in HK.  For As, I think it is top 5% of students in that subject.  There is no objective standard.  If you are better than the other 95%, you get an A.  But even if everybody does well, only the top 5% get As. 

That is what I was saying.  You guys were getting played man.

[garbon]

Grades are given on a relative basis in HK.  For As, I think it is top 5% of students in that subject.  There is no objective standard.  If you are better than the other 95%, you get an A.  But even if everybody does well, only the top 5% get As. 

That is what I was saying.  You guys were getting played man.

[Ideologue]

Though generally I leave bitch-as-positive stuff to the ladies.

That's their word, not ours.

[Monoriu]

Grades are given on a relative basis in HK.  For As, I think it is top 5% of students in that subject.  There is no objective standard.  If you are better than the other 95%, you get an A.  But even if everybody does well, only the top 5% get As. 

That is what I was saying.  You guys were getting played man.

Why?  If the rule says you have to beat the other 95% of students, then that's what we should do.  It is doable.  I think that actually works better than if there are objective standards.  An A would be meaningless if half the students get it.  That system is what makes my As valuable.

[Ideologue]

It's a stupid game and the only way to win is not to play.  If 50% of students are objectively excellent but 45% of them wind up washing dishes, that's an indictment of the system.  Of course, I'm by no means under the impression that PRChina of having a system that isn't garbage and doomed to fail.  This is one reason why it will, incidentally; remember Jacob's article about underachieving elites?

[derspiess]

Damn I cannot imagine calling a girl a bitch or calling her a cocktease or a slut in High School nor any of my friends.  But then I cannot imagine doing that now so maybe that is just us.

I not only can imagine but also do call women bitches and sluts though not as a negative.

But that's what gay men are required to do.

[Valmy]

I just do not see how anything good could result from me using the term bitch or slut even as a compliment.