gpa ist not fair. its baised towards ppl who donot need to eat.! down with the system.
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gpa ist not fair. its baised towards ppl who donot need to eat.! down with the system.
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01:54:50 AM
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It's also biased towards those who can spell and use correct puntuation.
I have a high GPA.
I need to eat, but the need for a high GPA/my parents' need for me to have a high GPA motivated me to skip lunch. That doesn't mean I don't eat. Just bring an apple, a granola bar, or even a sandwich and eat it in between classes. Some teachers will even let you eat your lunch in their class. You don't need to starve.
Still, the lack of a lunch period has made this year agony.
I didn't have time to talk to or even see many of my friends from last year and this year. I miss them. I can call them, but talking on the phone is not the same as having a conversation in person.
I had go through the entire day without a period to just relax. I didn't have a period to finish, or at least get a head start on the extra homework I recieved from taking another class. As a result, I had mounds of homework to do when I got home.
The only reason I even had an inkling of a personal life is because of clubs and other activities/affairs after school.
Except for a few easy subjects, this year has been nothing but hard work without play.
To conclude, op, do you really think that it's not fair that higher GPAs are biased toward people without lunches?
Why don't you put yourself through the hell I went through? I'll tell you why, because you don't want to, you choose not to, you want a lunch period (and I understand!) and you don't care how much your GPA is affected. If you wanted a high GPA as much as that, you'd most likely also skip lunch like I did.
My viewpoint is that I'm glad it's biased. I put myself through hell this year, and I'm glad it was worth it. Now I am the proud owner of a high GPA.
So next time you think something is biased, op, consider the other end of the spectrum.
I do have correct spelling and punctuation, if that counts.
^I also skipped lunch this year to take a non-honors class that I wanted to take (which lowered my GPA).
I'm also not going to skip it next year.
I deleted that second post because it used WAY too many names. You guys know by now that you're not supposed to do that.
You want my opinion? You should not be allowed to skip lunch. And my reasoning has nothing to do with GPA. Part of the high school experience is the social aspect. You know, that whole "interact with other people in a non-academic environment" sort of thing? Enloe is one of the best places in the world to have your high school experience. You should not be allowed to throw that away by skipping lunch. It's like living at home your first two years of college because you don't want to live in a dorm. It's part of the experience. Deal with it. If you want to take additional classes, do it over the summer.
^Some people don't have time to take classes over the summer.
haha whoops, my bad about the names
lemme say it again in a different way
if you look at the top 4, and maybe even the top 10 iunno for sure, 3 of our ('07) top 4 have never skipped lunch, and that 4th person skipped lunch to take a class that lowered his gpa.
this flashes me back to the whole "anti class rank petition" where people were using stupid arguments like this and i clearly remember someone saying "oh, just because i want to have a life, i have a bad class rank". ok, there are legit reasons to object to some of the school's gpa/class rank policies, but this isn't one of them. look at anon 2, that person clearly sacrificed for a better gpa, and should be rewarded.
^ and yet they won't be rewarded, because it is merely an "expectation" of their parents.
anon 2 recognizes that they sacrificed their non-school life in pursuit of a higher gpa. will that pay off? perhaps.
everyone loves a high gpa (colleges, employers, etc), but they're also highly interested in what you do beyond schoolwork. a kid who does nothing but school and studying, and maybe a club (or possibly two) will not be looked upon favorably when compared with a kid who has a slightly lower gpa, but a far more balanced lifestyle.
the gpa doesn't tell anyone what you know, how mature you are (or aren't), how well you can interact with others, or give any real indicator of future academic potential. gpa is simply a number applied to students in an effort to turn "learning" into a high-stakes competition, where the goal is not to acheive the most in-depth knowledge of a subject, but to learn to test well. those who test the best win.
i dont like the gpa sytem but only because a 77 is valued the same as a 84 and a 93 is the same as a 100 while in truth a 100 requires much more work and a total sacrifice of a social life.
^^ yea and most other states use the 10 pt. scale. so if u think about it, someone in north carolina getting a 92.4 would get the same credit (plus it would look the exact same to a college admissions board) as someone in another state getting a 79.5.
Wow, that's depressing. ^ But, I think having a high GPA requires more of a sacrafice of sleep than a sacrafice of food. You can eat and do homwework at the same time pretty easily, it's more difficult to do homework in your sleep (Although I know people who claim to have done it).
Well said, Pchis. Well said.
Marry me, anon 1. :D
And, though I concur with PChis's sentiment, I'd like to add:
I've not taken a lunch for two years, and don't intend to my senior year. Why? Because I'm taking Newspaper and Band, which run only fifth and sixth period. I usually find some cool class--like short story writing or independent solo/ensemble--to take to fill up the fourth elective in my schedule.
It's called bringing a lunch, people. Barring music classes in which I actually had to play flute, I ate food practically every period.
Agreed, Hannah - there was a grand total of one class that I couldn't eat in last year. Well, if you count the days that we actually used the lab in chemistry, maybe that number would rise to... oh, 1.1 of my classes.
Thanks to all of you, I now feel like the only person on tangst who sleeps in class.
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