Ms South Carolina, Caitlin!!

[Deja Q]

3.5 GPA
Studies graphic design
Can't speak in public
Bleach
Lip Gloss
Implants?

Still, 3.5 GPA... that's got to count for something?

[grace0418]

1. Nothing wrong with graphic designers!

Although she doesn't look or act like any graphic designers I know.

[evlbstrd]

2. I know a few who look and act like that.

They also don't know what they're doing. Go figure.

[sasquatch]

3. South Carolina needs to revamp it's K-12 education FAST!

I have a cousin that was raised in South Carolina, he reminds me a lot of Miss Teen South Carolina.
:D

[trof]

4. 'Caitlin' It figures.

[hfojvt]

8. hey now, that's my niece's name

and she's gonna be valedictorian.

[trof]

10. Look, I'm glad she like animals.

But...
:rofl:
I crack myself up sometimes.
;-)

[China_cat]

5. I wouldn't be surprised if a good part of that 3.5 gpa

isn't predicated on her looks alone.

My youngest went to school here in Charleston. I can't tell you how many times the teachers and administration let him slide on stuff because 'he's -such- a good-looking boy'. Such as not letting me know until May that he hadn't turned in any homework all year but they were passing him anyway (and we're talking about homework that WAS finished...he'd throw it away on the way to school). Such as refusing to believe that he set a fire in the school. (He's too good-looking to have done something like that.) Many others.

They skated him on his looks alone and I was the bad guy because I couldn't correlate physical appearance with the need to actually do the work. Or that I couldn't understand why they only saw bad behavior in less attractive students.

[sasquatch]

6. That's common in Appalachain/Southern communities

I lived in a Appalachain emigrant town in Southwest Ohio. I was always considered a "trouble child" and a "poor student" in school although it was never really explained why? My brother though, the cute one, could do anything he wants; he could've showed up in High School with a dead hooker in his trunk and the principal would help dispose of it. Wheneve you looked at some of the DH or LD kids when I was in school you would notice that they were Fugly looking, and I don't some of them were LD or DH even, it's just the dumb fuck teacher didn't want to deal with an "Evil looking child" AKA ugly.

[HughBeaumont]

7. It's common in almost EVERY small town.

The beauty queens got carte blanche. I should know because I've blatantly seen it in HS classes and my younger sister was one of them. She flat out told me the examples of favoritism in regards to homework, projects and tests she and her friends received in HS. She graduated HS with a 3.2 GPA, even though as late as 17 didn't know whether New Mexico was a state or not (I couldn't make this shit up if I tried. Trivial Pursuit game. I was jaw-dropping stunned).

[China_cat]

9. Charleston, SC isn't exactly a small town.

And I got a really bad rep with the school for continuing to 'harass' the teachers about the fact that my son's looks should have absolutely nothing to do with his grades. He either knew the material and was doing the work or he wasn't. Hell, he didn't even have the 'jock' status to fall back on. He was too afraid of having his face messed up to play sports.