I have come to a conclusion about the honors/GATE/AP or w/e you call it program.
It has about 4 types of people in it after a year or so...
1) The genuinely smart kids who try and get good grades on everything.
2) The "decently" smart students who get decent scores on everything.
3) The genuinely smart kids who don't try and get good grades on tests but not much else.
4) The average kids who work their asses off just to get a B by the end of a semester so when they do take the final and fail it, they can still pass.
I realized this after taking my final for Biology, in which I had failed all semester along with this other kid. When the results came back from the test, a total of THREE people
didn't fail the test. Me, the other kid, and my other homie.
See I realized that ANYBODY can get good grades, but it takes a master to perform in a test. So I think it's bullshit that everything these days is based upon grades from homework and "projects" when those only show who has the harder workers. So if the point of honors is to keep the "smarter" kids away from the others, why has it turned out like this?
So for all y'all in regular classes, don't feel bad.
