Ok, for the people that get good grades, like straight as and bs or whatever you and your parents consider good... doesnt it seem like we still have all these restrictions, like we cant go to parties and etc. etc. but all the failing people get to, well not get to always, but go to parties and go to the mall by themselves, etc. etc. But we get praise from our parents, but no privlages. Do you find that ironic?

Not really.
You're generalizing.

Very Ironic....I'm straight A's but all my parents say is "Good Job"...then it's like I never came home with my report card

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That wasn't the question. '-'

yea, i kind of am, but thats my situation...

hmm yeah that is a very general statement...cause i don't quite have that problem...

that's my situation too, i don't really mind though.

YES. But over the past year or so, I've used my awesome debate tactics to convince my parents that it's truly unfair for them to be so strict on us. Just as long as we're doing well in school, they should be more lenient towards what we do.

i find that incredibly ironic: i am a good student in school, yet i can't go to school dances or whatever because my parents want me to 'study my lesson'. my other friends parents don't care that much! also: i took the SAT this yr, for the CTY talent search: my parents bought a HUGE SAT book and made me take it with me where ever i went over vacation and all. sometimes i just want to have less strict parents.

Yeah my mom thinks that I shouldn't get praised for doing something that is expected of me...it really sucks. She claims she trusts me, but she always has me on such a tight leash, I can't hardly do anything it seems like.

Well yeah I kind of agree. I get straight A's and my mom is strict as hell.
>.< It's so annoying.
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my parents are just like good job....i dont get any special reward or anything. =[

Hm... You're kinda right? I don't know... but it doesn't mean that the parents let them. Kids do that behind their parent's back like without letting them know it. Well I tell since I'm a good girl?????? lol....... um yeah anyways. I don't really get A's and B's... but I still get the good stuff. I get big allowance from my dad... I receive more? Kinda weird... but yeah.

umm i get like straight A's .. and my mom rewards me all tha time =] .. like buyin clothes .. or juss gettin me somethin for no reason .. and my parents still let me go places and stuff .. heck, even one time my dad got me a guitar and i didn't even expect it ! x] that's when i started playing . heh ..



but yea, i find that very ironic .. haha .. i have a friend that gets detention like everyday almost .. and gettin in trouble everyday and failing .. yet his mom doesn't even care O.o ;;

could you tell me what to say to my parents to let me go somewhere with my friends? lol

i am so tiered of having my parents control stupid stuff like going to the movies with my friends (no boys...), seeing a pg-13 movie, even though im 13...

AllI get is like... $20 for straight A's... Actually I rarely get straight A's... I always get that 1 B+ (89.# %! Damn that teacher!) and the rest all A's. But even so I just get $20 and that's it.

This one guy's parents say that if he gets above a 3.0 then he'll get a new car... WTF My dad doesn't even want me to drive and I know my mother won't buy me a car. Ah well..

Whenever my mom sees me playing a game or on aim chatting (she thinks it email), she automatically assumes that I'm slacking (even though often I'm typing an essay, researching, etc.) and that my grades are dropping. Aish

ur not studying for them..you are studying for yourself <_<...

yepyep, thats what my parents say to me. And there is no good retort I can say back after that. psh. It's cuz it's true.

no. all i get is praise. i don't get anything money or anything else materialistic. but i am alright with that because i don't think i should get rewarded for something i am expected to do. that being doing good in school.

i've never seen that face before...i like it


well, i never got anything for good grades either back in the day...but now i'm a slacker and today i realized i failed every class...with a 55-50 because of cutting too much...so my mom told me that if i get at least a 70 for each class i get $200, i guess it's different if they want you to reform
when i'm reading the news on yahoo she thinks i'm lookin at stuff about boys or make up or whatever



but anyway, the topic, it's not really true for everyone, some people can just study n get everything done and go party...and if you do get really good grades, you can always try to blackmail your parents and be like "i'll fail every class if you don't let me go ________" if your parents are asian it might have a good chance of working...after all, asian parents are all about status and gossip



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i just saw this (i missed it ):

well...if this all was for myself i wouldn't even go to school........ i go to school because my parents make me and it's the law...even though the police see me dawdling during school hours and do nothing about it

omg yes! its soooo not fair. i work hard to get all a's and my parents still give me all these gay unfair restrictions

I find it pissing me off. One C, and no computer. One B, I don't get what I want.
I need straight A's or I get nothing.
Dude, I'm not that smart. A lot of people are way smarter than me and you're expecting me to be the smartest. Learn stupidity.

My mom tries to do stuff when I dont have good grades which is alot but it never works out so its all fly by. Nothing really special. I get no rewards besides a Good Job!

I made good grades, never snuck out, never lied, and I wasnt trusted with anything. I like, got in trouble if I gave my friend (who lives a bloack away) a ride home from school with me. But 2 of my best friends; one that snuck out and got caught on a regular basis, and the other who smoked weed like...24-7 and smelled like it every time he came home, were allowed to do so many things. I mean, I wasnt even allowed to be on the phone after 9:30 til I turned 18 cuz they thought I was planning something...ugh. I never got rewarded for being a really well behaved kid. I don't get it. I should have been the one with privaleges...but its like I was being punished for what other stupid kids were doing.

maybe their parents don't put enough pressure on them / care about their grades.

so theyre failing courses ---> and their parents don't care ---> so they can party and do whatever the hell they want.

it all adds up.