"And we've come to a kind of calmness, just knowing that if we just bide our time and execute on our Grade A chances, that it's in the net and we should get the win most of the time".
At Stuyvesant High School, a competitive math-and-science school in Manhattan with a high proportion of first-generation immigrants, my classmates and I would get up every morning to wage battle over a hundredth of a percentile on our grade-point average; my new friends were fighting over so many basis points on their Bloomberg monitors.
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We hosted an event for Valley Green Bank in Philadelphia, which we gave an "A" for small-business lending on our Banking Grades scorecard — a grade that qualified Valley Green for one of our 2012 Small Business Bank Awards.
You are all on a schedule, but our grades and, in turn, our futures depend on us following ours.
We do not have the same freedom to say no to those on whom our salaries or our grades or our futures depend.
And, of course, the coaches are always on our backs about keeping our grades up.
Years later, when I was studying in the United States, I noticed how differently the system treated students who are on an athletic scholarship: If our grades weren't good enough, we weren't allowed to play until they improved.
By Russell Maloney The New Yorker, August 7, 1937 P. 9 The mother of a nine-year-old girl who attends a progressive school, found this passage in her daughter's diary: "From 9 o'clock to twelve o'clock our grade worked on our morals.
