I had teachers give me B's when I was passing all the tests getting A's because they said I wasn't even trying.
Maybe they were just lying to me to keep me from feeling bad.
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Conversely, I had a “home room” teacher in Jr. High whose policy was that he would never give a student less than a “C” if the student could demonstrate that he / she really was working hard to learn / develop a skill. That saved me in handwriting (cursive), because I just had terrible trouble with it. (I don’t know why - my Mom and Dad both had beautiful handwriting.) But I worked like heck, and eventually my handwriting actually was worth a “C”. Ditto for typing class. (Well, ok, maybe I deserved a C- in that one. I just don’t have great manual dexterity / finger coordination.)
I was rather relieved when I got to engineering school, and most everything (as on drawings) was printed or typed.
Later, I wanted to learn to play guitar, and learned I was truly deluded...
:-)