Post #11 Don't judge a student by his or her grade

  
"The most quiet people have the loudest minds" -Stephen Hawking-

    Grades, to some people grades in high school are the most important grades you'll ever get, to others; well they just don't really care that much about high school grades. It is a fact that the grades you receive in high school are going to determine to what college you can apply to, that is, if you want to continue your studies after high school. The grades you receive in high school are possibly the grades that will determine the rest of your future. Some people in school have amazing grades, all A's or maybe all A's and some B's. I really admire those students that can keep up the good work in school. They seem to be very smart, they do have grades that prove it, but in reality, when you talk to some of those students, they turn out to be complete and total airheads. When you learn a little bit more about them, it turns out that most of the credit they receive actually belongs to someone else. Sometimes they do in fact have the grades that make them look smart, but in reality, they're just not. Some of my friends have probably the lowest grades in the class, but when you talk to them, you might be thinking otherwise. Two or three of my friends might have really low grades in some classes, but whenever I talk to them I am able to maintain and keep up conversations of many different and complex topics. Topics that would prove to be a real challenge to some of the high grade, honor or high honor students.

    Some of those high grade students aspire to go to great and renown colleges and universities, but when I think of it, they don't really look like Princeton, Oxford, Yale, Duke or Harvard material. How is it that students are judged by their grades and not by their real knowledge and the way they are? How is it that our society will deny a geeky looking kid that has infinite knowledge of many topics, yet low grades, while accepting a fake, hypocrite, and bad example of a true student just because of his high grades? I am not claiming to be the smartest person out there, because I definitely know that I am not, but I am a very organized and responsible human being. I'll give an easy example of why I think society can be a little unfair when it comes to judging students by their grades. I, myself am a real history, geometry geek. Those have always been my favorite classes, I've always had the highest grades in those classes, and I do consider myself to be a person with vast knowledge, at least for my 16 years of age. I could have virtually any type of conversation with anyone and at the same time contribute and add to the arguments in the conversation. This might sound very good and real nice, but in reality, some of my grades are not the best. I am not entirely happy with my grades. But I ask to you: Whenever you talk to someone, do you know his/her grades? Do you only focus on a person's grades or on their real knowledge? Is knowledge based on grades? Grades are only numbers, nothing more. Next time you talk to someone with low grades, talk to them a little bit more, they might not be the best students in school, but some of them will sure have amazing, complex and interesting minds.