cash for good grades

[Autumnlicious]

I find it stupid to reward a child for doing stupid work.

They should be rewarded for excelling outside of their bounds, not staying comfortably (but doing well) within the confines.

Then again, I did science fairs. I did independent research. I interned at NASA.

I was never given money for school work I could assure highest or of undone quality.

You know what turned my initial sinking start of high school of C's, D's and one F into ending high school with A's and B's?

The fact that I exceeded the confines of my high school to indulge in the county and international science fairs, while the rest of my effing peers did nothing but their studies.

They got all A's. Having a 4.0 was common among the AP group I dealt with. To them, I was a semi-serious joke who couldn't even earn all A's.

Quite a few of them mad when they found out I got to UCLA and they didn't.

I wonder if it had to do with all that independent research, going to all those public colloquial at Stanford and Berkeley so I could articulate my fascination with systems analysis, having a track record in something other than fucking high school.