Grade point average

 

Ever wondered what this is? Well, Dan is just starting to find out.  It is 10pm and he is lying awake worrying about a piece of work tomorrow which will be ‘graded’.  He is worried that he’ll get a low grade because he doesn’t know the systems yet.  He is wondering what the point of the grade is and how the people who always get low grades must feel.  He is hoping that people don’t tell each other their grades and has observed that his classmates seem to be taking this grading thing in their stride, so maybe you get used to it.  He is wondering what a grade actually measures and how you record things you can’t measure, which might actually be more important for a person and for a school.  Also he says it’s really hot at school and sometimes he gets a heat headache.

For the first time, school here seems a far cry from Preston Street.  I resent the system making him so worried.  He is nine, too young for grading.