tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37491865.post6690536209441595464..comments2023-10-06T10:17:06.737-04:00Comments on Thou and Thou Only: What Grades Really Meant to My ParentsHarmonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15105846442509828835noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37491865.post-62735471497061251792009-02-24T14:13:00.000-05:002009-02-24T14:13:00.000-05:00LOL both my parents were school teachers and this ...LOL both my parents were school teachers and this was the scale used around our house LOL. My mom was a less strict than my father. She thought a B was "ok." What was even worse than that you ask? Having to get spankings because of the dreaded (and often repeated) "talks with friends too much" commentary on the report card LOLHomeschoolin' hot-roddershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04723299206729508916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37491865.post-85091731592839886272009-02-19T02:01:00.000-05:002009-02-19T02:01:00.000-05:00This post made me laugh out loud. My father is no...This post made me laugh out loud. My father is not Asian (mostly Irish background) and he had a similar scale, except there were only three options.<BR/>A was expected.<BR/>B was grudgingly accepted, but he was very disgruntled about it and wanted a good explanation as to why.<BR/>C was failing. That's what he told me, and he said it like he meant it. I had long arguments with him about C being average, and he always ended those arguments by saying, "But average is failing."<BR/><BR/>I never could figure out if he understood what it meant, but was trying to make a point, or if he really simply could not wrap his head around the concept of 'average' being acceptable.Headmistress, zookeeperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14071449326819510530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37491865.post-53706170842786493762009-02-17T18:20:00.000-05:002009-02-17T18:20:00.000-05:00Ah, Vietnamese. That sounds more like it.(don't w...Ah, Vietnamese. That sounds more like it.<BR/><BR/>(don't worry, it was a long time ago, and you are, after all, not Asian yourself)JunkMalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02619673168896233941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37491865.post-78384029893582673922009-02-17T17:28:00.000-05:002009-02-17T17:28:00.000-05:00Okay, now I'm terribly embarrassed, but upon furth...Okay, now I'm terribly embarrassed, but upon further remembering, it may have been that Vietnam was her country of origin.<BR/>~blushing~Smockity Frockshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15922037293905396736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37491865.post-54442390532109942242009-02-15T07:30:00.000-05:002009-02-15T07:30:00.000-05:00lol. My dh has that grade scale for our children....lol. My dh has that grade scale for our children.<BR/><BR/>Good to know you turned out alright in spite of that high pressure.CappuccinosMomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06707709617552413520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37491865.post-57500231530034212992009-02-14T10:08:00.000-05:002009-02-14T10:08:00.000-05:00I honestly don't think they got that disappointed ...I honestly don't think they got that disappointed about Bs. In fact, I got straight As on a report card (per term/semester) once in 4th grade and then not again till 10th grade. If I mentioned that I got a B on a test now, they are like, "good job!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37491865.post-75530968655126501642009-02-13T19:48:00.000-05:002009-02-13T19:48:00.000-05:00Note to Laura-probably because your best friend at...Note to Laura-probably because your best friend at the time was Korean & she pushed herself, hence so did you. It made for easy parenting as we had to do the opposite, take the pressure off of you instead of add more.Sherryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08825811227943090000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37491865.post-82466366036241005982009-02-13T12:42:00.000-05:002009-02-13T12:42:00.000-05:00Yikes, I think I'd rather get an F than a C or D! ...Yikes, I think I'd rather get an F than a C or D! lol<BR/><BR/>My parents were never that intense with us, but I think I imposed a similar scale on myself in high school.Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00030815071294070061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37491865.post-87915612041373522052009-02-13T10:44:00.000-05:002009-02-13T10:44:00.000-05:00Hmmm... Okay, now I'm going to be racking my brain...Hmmm... Okay, now I'm going to be racking my brain trying to remember! I thought I would never forget her, but I could very well be wrong. It was 1992. A few things have demanded my attention since then.<BR/><BR/>(I don't know about any of the pronunciations since I called her "Monique". I just [thought] I remembered her name from the written records.)Smockity Frockshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15922037293905396736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37491865.post-49605883210761869172009-02-13T10:37:00.000-05:002009-02-13T10:37:00.000-05:00Okay, I have to correct your Korean, my dear. ;-) ...Okay, I have to correct your Korean, my dear. ;-) There are many diphthongs in Korean, just not of the 'ao' variety. The opposite ('oa') is very common, but it's pronounced more like "wa". There's also the ee + vowel diphthong, which ends up sounding like "ya" or "yo", for example. In fact, all the vowels except for the basic six (a, eo, o, u, ee, eu) are technically considered diphthongs.<BR/><BR/>That being said, Bao is a very unusual Korean name. It sounds much more Chinese to me. Doan is also an unusual syllable. Was it pronounced "dwan" or "do-an"? If the first, that would be the first time I'd heard of those letters being strung together in Korean. If the second, it would be a very unusual name with more than two syllables in the given name (unless Doan is the family name, in which case it's still unusual because family names are nearly always one syllable).<BR/><BR/>If you take away the Bao, the name reads like a very Korean name: Hahn Do-an.Harmonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15105846442509828835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37491865.post-3826923452976103882009-02-13T10:06:00.000-05:002009-02-13T10:06:00.000-05:00In the interest of full disclosure, I don't think ...In the interest of full disclosure, I don't think I had it as bad as kids actually in Korea. The pressure gets worse the closer you get to college. But I hear that college is no worse than (might even be less) pre-college.<BR/><BR/>I think something might be getting lost in translation about our Bao Hahn Doan. Was Bao pronounced like "bow"? If so, that would be the first time I've seen a Korean name that has that sort of sound. Korean syllables usually only have one pure vowel sound (monophthong, if you want to get technical), whereas Bao is a diphthong (has both an "ah" and "oo" sound).JunkMalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02619673168896233941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37491865.post-34809977456325462332009-02-13T09:54:00.000-05:002009-02-13T09:54:00.000-05:00When I taught 4th grade, I had a student who had c...When I taught 4th grade, I had a student who had come straight from Korea that year. She spoke NO English. She managed to make straight A's, though, and it amazed me that she always made perfect scores on the spelling tests.<BR/><BR/>Her name was Bao Hahn Doan, but she wanted to be called Monique.(?)Smockity Frockshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15922037293905396736noreply@blogger.com