What happend to "Try your best"? How does grading

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Mr.AtomicExplosion Wrote:Hahahaha, So true. The system is so unfair aswell, A essay one teacher might like and another might hate. So its all a unfair system. Some unlucky kids might miss a chance at going to Harvard because some asshole teacher lost his wife and got mad so he took it out on the kids or something, The teachers always act like they have something to be angry at.

Who gives a flip about Harvard? I, for one, don't want to go there, yes, even if it was free. Plus, don't assume (not that you did) that just because Harvard is such a good school, that it must mean all the "smart" people go there. Because actually, that's quite false.

10-20-2007 11:30 AM

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