unfair!

got pissed last friday. my mother told me that my brother had a classmate or schoolmate whose dreams were crushed by their own school. my brother is in his fourth year so he's already applying to get into a good university or college. anyway, last friday, my family were talking about the UPCAT. and then my mother told me about my brother's schoolmate or classmate, not sure which one, for sure batchmate. this schoolmate of his already had an UPCAT application form since this recent summer (obviously). and what pissed me off is that their school, their highschool, rejected my brother's schoolmate's application! why? the schoolmate had a line of 7 in his or her grades (not sure, again obviously, whether the schoolmate's a guy or girl). that's absurd! the highschool cant do that! can they? as far as i know, nothing is indicated in the UPCAT application form prohibiting a student with a line of 7 from applying. what matters is that the student is a highschool graduate. that's it! what right did the high school have to reject the student's application? if its the school's rule, then it shouldn't be valid! cmon, the school is limiting the student's options just because of a line of 7! its infringes the right of the student to education, quality education. the highschool was in no position to dictate to the student which schools to apply in. the student was even excited to have the UPCAT application form, it was probably his or her dream to be a UP student (not sure if i can relate, ive applied to study in UP since kinder and i always failed, so when UPCAT came and i failed, i was disappointed but i didnt feel that my dreams were crushed. why? i dont have a dream, highschool made me a cold and heartless individualist with no ambition). i guess he or she wasnt expecting that his or her own high school would turn down his or her application. what the fuck is wrong with that school. ok, they may think the student is a mediocre student of sorts, because the kid has a line of 7 but dont these kind of students deserve to be given a chance? besides, its not like the kid cant improve himself or herself. if a school is doing that for the purpose of not tarnishing its reputation, well, that would be pointless because it doesnt have a good reputation to maintain in the first place. its just fooling itself on how good their school is. this is what i hate about schools nowadays, this accreditation and reputation thing is taken wrongly and abused by some schools. they're no longer student-friendly. schools should keep in mind their purpose, which is to teach and educate.

anyway, i asked my mother, what did the parents do? she said she didnt know, and when i asked my brother, he also didnt know but his schoolmate just said he or she is just going to improve his or her grades this schoolyear. well, if that's the case, it would be too late for him or her to apply (i think Aug 5 is UPCAT entrance exam day). the school might have argued that, if the student can perform well, he or she should have done so in first place. he or she wouldnt have a line of 7 and he or she could have applied. that's stupid! i had a line of 7 in highschool, i was able to apply in UP, i didnt pass but i ended up in a good university, the one in Katipunan with a blue eagle gym, and graduated there, in four years. and grades dont mean a fucking thing! ok sorry, that's an exaggeration, it means something, but its not everything. my grades in college could have been better. my grades in law school could also have been better, but i didnt believe in grades. i have nothing to prove to anyone, im there to learn. so what i do is just give my professors what would satisfy them so i could continue studying (well, that applies from gradeschool to college, not much with law school where mastery of the law is needed, unfortunately, there is this thing called force of habit). not because a student's grades are low automatically means he or she is not intelligent. there are some people i know who are brilliant, but their brilliance dont reflect in their grades. they are probably even smarter than the ones with good-looking grades (i think grades should be called as good-looking than be labeled to be just good, because that's what grades really are to some people, high grades look good, it doesnt always follow that the person that owns those grades is in reality "good). point is, grades are not a perfect way of measuring a student's capability and intelligence. it never was and never will. the only reason we use this grading system is because there is no other alternative.