I probably have this attitude because even though I'm white, the Asian grading standards discussed here very much applied to me. If they'd had all this modern shit where your parents could see your individual grades online, I'd 100% have been dead by murder or suicide by the age of 15. I used to have to explain why I'd get 90-something grades if they knew about it, and one time I got a C in a class, I literally modified the report card to hide it.
I had a friend who modified everyone's report card to hide it. Right in between this era of paper and digital.
They were asking for it, too. All you had to do from a school computer was press Ctrl-C, mount or find a Netware share, and maybe guess one password that was probably the teacher's cat's name.
Very nice. They ran our grades on and old school system (think terminals) and a ton of the teachers still kept paper before they turned it in. I realized that the laser printer wasn’t properly fusing the letters on for this one and essentially scratched the grade off and with a few careful tests on blank paper I printed a new letter in its place. I couldn’t even tell with a magnifying glass. Later on I actually got my hands on some of the special paper they printed them on, but I was about to graduate and never did anything with it.
Computers at schools those days were a blast. They weren’t locked down at all. We used to download from Napster and burn CDs and I had Quake on probably half the PCs in the school. There was even one teacher for a CAD class that would totally let us play it the last 30mins or so of class if everyone was chill and worked on their assignments up until then.
That wasn't state of the art at the time. It was just a public school, at a time when the only computer class was called typing and taught by a lady who probably WAS the inspiration for Mavis Beacon. You know for putting words onto the paper to put in an envelop and... never miind.
Second place is the first loser.
I probably have this attitude because even though I'm white, the Asian grading standards discussed here very much applied to me. If they'd had all this modern shit where your parents could see your individual grades online, I'd 100% have been dead by murder or suicide by the age of 15. I used to have to explain why I'd get 90-something grades if they knew about it, and one time I got a C in a class, I literally modified the report card to hide it.
If you ain't first you're last.
I had a friend who modified everyone's report card to hide it. Right in between this era of paper and digital.
They were asking for it, too. All you had to do from a school computer was press Ctrl-C, mount or find a Netware share, and maybe guess one password that was probably the teacher's cat's name.
Very nice. They ran our grades on and old school system (think terminals) and a ton of the teachers still kept paper before they turned it in. I realized that the laser printer wasn’t properly fusing the letters on for this one and essentially scratched the grade off and with a few careful tests on blank paper I printed a new letter in its place. I couldn’t even tell with a magnifying glass. Later on I actually got my hands on some of the special paper they printed them on, but I was about to graduate and never did anything with it.
Computers at schools those days were a blast. They weren’t locked down at all. We used to download from Napster and burn CDs and I had Quake on probably half the PCs in the school. There was even one teacher for a CAD class that would totally let us play it the last 30mins or so of class if everyone was chill and worked on their assignments up until then.
I used to exit to DOS and play BASIC snake...
That wasn't state of the art at the time. It was just a public school, at a time when the only computer class was called typing and taught by a lady who probably WAS the inspiration for Mavis Beacon. You know for putting words onto the paper to put in an envelop and... never miind.