Why didn't Report Cards have an "E"?

[ohiosmith]

[sir_captain]

1. So as not to be confused with "excellent"

as demonstrated right in your picture

[bicentennial_baby]

2. Apparently they did, a looong time ago

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/17/AR2005101701565.html

:)

EDIT: Also some states do have E

"Whether the failing grade is F or E typically depends on time and geography. Some states, but not many, have tended to favor E since World War II while the majority of the country tends to use F. Ultimately, the grade F traces to the days of two-point grading as Pass (P) and Fail (F)."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_(education)#United_States

[ohiosmith]

3. Thank you

[bicentennial_baby]

4. you're welcome...your question made me curious, so

I had to find out :D

:hi:

[Roon]

7. Whenever I got an F

I always thought of the document saying, "fuck you!! fuck you!!" LOL

[Gormy Cuss]

9. Hey! Thanks for the edit. I'm old, but not that old.

In my school system in Maine the grades were A-E, and failing grade was anything below 70 points. I was shocked to find out that most kids had A-D and F, and the failing grade was below 60.

[bicentennial_baby]

10. Hehe, I was just going by the dates in the article I linked to

which stated that they started all of this grade scale stuff in the 1800s :)

:hi:

[cmkramer]

12. I know the public schools where I lived did.

I went to Catholic school from kindergarten to 9th grade, and when I was in 8th grade, they switched the grades to numbers where 1 was the best and 5 was failing. I recall some kids trying to convince their parents that 5 meant they were the fifth best in their class!

[Mike Daniels]

5. If memory serves Va Beach used an "E" in place of "F"

when I was in school through 1985.

[Breeze54]

6. Because excellence wasn't an option in 1957!

:rofl:

My son's had E's in grade school!

"The times, they are a changing...."

[eyepaddle]

8. My Minnesota State University System school had "E" as

the failing grade back in the early 90s--I think it was because the mainframe wasn't progarmmed to skip a letter; or so I was told at any rate. The last time I heard though, that had changed.

[Silver Swan]

11. We did

The school system in Michigan where I attended 1951-1964 used an "E," although before fourth grade we were graded "S" for satisfactory, with S+, S-, and N for not-satisfactory.

It seemed funny to change to A,B,C,D, and F when I went to college.

[LSK]

13. how do you get a C in Drafting?