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J R seriously some students are born smarter. However intellect is just one aspect of a person and there also that struggle of staying sane with such a powerful gift . I like Cooper.
@@supertrollfaxnoprinter3329 that's what more people need to understand. Getting grades is about 10% intelligence and 90% work ethic. When you don't understand something at first, all you need to do is just put in some effort and eventually you'll get it, I've been there many times.
Most "adults" really don't have life any more figured out than anyone else, especially when they try to over-emphasis their intelligence and superiority over others.
Cooper is really cool, the way he's not arrogant about his grades and tries his hardest to relate to others. He seems like the kind of person who would make a really loyal friend.
These kids are by far the most unprejudiced, empathetic and respectful people I've ever seen on Middle Ground. The way they listen to each other without interrupting or dismissing anyone is truly heart warming.
1.8 gpa in high school, 3.9 gpa in college, currently in medical school. The only difference in getting straight A’s is dedication. High school gpa doesn’t mean anything. Find your passion, leave the childish behaviors behind, and grind.
@@clairobscur7697 Maybe he went to a community college then transferred to a 4 year college It happens a lot and a lot of people became very successful that way
@@shadofreally it's like a humble brag,isn't it?But probably he's just too perfectionist or something and can't possibly risk his grades to know how failure truly feels
plain_ yoghurt but I think you should understand that for people like him getting a B or a C does feel like your failing because you set a standard for yourself and once you don’t meet it you become disappointed feeling like a failure for not being able to meet that standard as a person myself who is like cooper I could understand how the flunkies feel in some ways of course I’m not necessarily flunking or doing bad in school but sometimes we can understand I especially relate to giving up on work half way and procrastinating doing things last minute I truly don’t deserve the grades i get
Don't let school get in the way of your education I think that just reminded me that my purpose of going to school is to better myself and my community, grow my knowledge on how to do better understand the complex ideas of how things work so I can solve it, I want to go to a good school like Rice because I want to make sure I can have the experience to project back into my community, my school is not the definition of my intelligence, I can learn anything I want and test scores don't reflect my knowledge and understanding
But someone on the flunking side brought this up and I agree: maybe they can understand failing a test or not doing well in a subject, but it’s not the same. I think unless they have flunked in the past, it’s hard for them to truly relate.
@@hannahbloom relate means "feel sympathy for or identify with". So like if you got straight A's in school but then got a bad grade once i think you could then identify or feel sympathy to the person whos getting them all the time. Relate doesnt really mean that you have to be just like the one youre relating to.
Entropy of Levanter - yes, but my personal feeling is that failing a test and failing a class are quite different, so even if you fail a test, it’s not really the same thing/feeling/problem
they have to fail to get Grade As, that's how it works. the smartest people have to have got every answer wrong. As a wise man said "make every mistake possible and you'll never fail".
I completely agree with Cooper's statement about different learning styles, and also different skills and kinds of intelligence. The fact that the education system only values a certain set of skills and learning styles might be its greatest flaw.
It’s bc he decided to take a different approach with his grades. Not just focusing on the good grades themselves but focusing on the development he puts when achieving those grades. Ik a lot of students think it’s all about grades but it’s really all about how you approach those grades and doing the best you can to develop that work ethic. That’s why Cooper is the way he is. People should really follow that for hs and in college(if you choose that route), to set success in their career path.
I would love to see this same episode with older people around their 30’s who were straight-A or flunking students in school. A conversation reflecting on how their grades actually affected their futures (if at all) would be dope.
I was top 10 of my class in high school and am currently getting praise from my college teachers. Thing is, I don't know half the things I turn in. I feel brainless. It's more as though my hands are the ones that do the thinking rather than myself. I'm not smart at all, I just know how to get my way around a teacher. Then again, school is not something I'm passionate about. If it were, I'd probably put in true effort.
It seems like you underestimate yourself or have an evaluation of yourself that may differ from what's true. You are an intelligent person. Intelligence isn't just about content - it's those other things too. Teaching and learning is relational.
Purple Nebulae wish I had u as a teacher then cuz most teachers that I be havin nowadays don’t care and just want to get the lesson over with, and at parent teacher conferences they gonna tell my mom that I’m doing something wrong and I need help at home 🤦🏾♀️
Purple Nebulae it’s not even that y’all aren’t there. I do online school so you have to reach out and I’m just nervous. I know y’all are there but my social anxiety ..I hate that I have to talk to people
Yes, teachers have to help students. But why is the student not getting enough help. Is it cause the teacher isn't qualified enough? Or is it cause she has not really reach out. However, the students themselves have to put in effort to reach out, and find whatever ways to do it. Be it additional classes, tuitions or even self study on their own. Not just saying they dont get enough help and not doing much about it. They are teenagers already they could voice out to parents etc and reach out
Having been a student with ADHD that's how I felt most of the time. The linear path of learning left me feeling behind in algebra. I ended highschool with a 3.29 GPA. When I taught myself years later via TH-cam, it clicked.
I got straight As through high school, and then failed half of university. School isn’t one size fits all, and education fails students. Education is so standardized and once you are out of highschool education is all to make money. It’s quite sad we still learn the same way we did 100 years ago.
Same here, the instruction quality in university is terrible, I've never thought there could be teachers this bad. If only attendance weren't mandatory...
Antonio Damoura2 One example versus hundreds. Teenagers are not always like this. Source: Am a teenager who realises Jubilee picks certain types of people.
In all honesty I'm a straight A student, but I never felt like I earned it in school. My brain worked differently because I have some really bad ADHD, but it still worked a lot faster because it just put things together faster than everyone else. It gave me this facade that I was super intelligent and smarter than everyone throughout middle school and it made me arrogant. It was a lot different in high school when I finally put together I just learned I wasn't more intelligent than the other students around me. One of my closest friends struggled so much throughout middle school, then one day he asked me for some help it finally clicked. He was having trouble with the way they showed him to do something in math, and I realized that was the same problem I had had with it, but I had come up with a different formula to get it done. I showed him my way and it clicked for him almost immediately, and he started doing the problems faster than I had. It was remarkable to me and incredibly eye opening. I wasn't any smarter than him, we were just different. Still one of my favorite people and smartest friends.
I have adhd but I guess it just got worse for me in 8th grade bc im unmedicatated and just overall burned out. I used to be an all A student until now and I'm even failing a few classes. I'm disappointed 8h myself tbh but oh well
I think the real problem is that students are often forced to study what they don't care about so they dont put as much effort as compared to the amount of effort they put in something they love. Other times it takes a while to understand certain things and or just plain laziness.
Straight-A or Flunking, all these kids know how broken the educational system is and what actually defines a valuable person to society. Shame the educational itself is not "smart" enough to know that.
The education system in most other developed countries is better don't generalize because of your narrow world-view, this is mainly an American problem.
@Ricky Dicky i kind of agree. All the people in d vid were chill but I feel slot of cringe with how much people like Cooper, like yeah his cool, he would be a great friend but like c'mon
I really hope that mental health is addressed at some point when it comes to this topic. I have had depression, anxiety, social anxiety, depersonalization disorder, and trauma for around six years now and was just diagnosed with ADD. I used to be a straight A student, but of course, once quarantine rolled around it made everything worse and now I’m a flunking student. It’s not fun to know you are failing and that people look at you differently now because you have horrible grades.
Yeah, that was me 2 weeks ago. But I realized I was dropping, so talk to people, talk to adults, look online for resources and GO OUTSIDE!! The sun releases endorphins in your brain which is the natural version of cocaine. They activate the same brain chemicals.
David Wallace I’m sorry that you’ve been made to feel that way. But let’s instead believe that there are still kind young people out there. I think each of them will leave a positive impact on at least one person each ❤️
@@masterchief4189 100% they should give their opinion! But should they keep a closed, unidirectional, us vs them tribal mind set? I have seen countless times when older populations consider their view the only way. It shuts down opportunity for growth and evolution of the mind.
My older brother flunked every single class, had to move schools bc of it, came back to our school again, and still flunked. And so he dropped out in 11th grade. He got his GED and instead of taking the 6 week courses to get his GED, he took the tests the first day of class and aced every single one with 100% (except English). Then he joined the marines and got like 1 point off in the asvab test (marines intelligence test) because he is THAT smart. School failed him not bc he didn’t try, or he didn’t know. But he was too smart and had adhd and couldn’t sit through the boredom. With that, I had he same math teacher as my brother the same year my brother dropped out. When he dropped out my teacher said to me. “He would nap in my class all the time. And if I called on him to answer a question, he’d pick his head up, stare at the question and give the correct answer within 30 seconds. Then lay his head back down and go to sleep” School is built for teachers pets.
Nice imagination you got there no human can wake up and know thousands of years of advancement in human understanding of maths and sciences English and other subjects you simply living a dream he must have studied at some point before taking those tests
@@panpan9861 if you read the comment again with your tiny intellect you’ll see there’s no mention of a the person actually studying and the commenter acts as if the person just took the test and immediately scored well without prior studying therefore my comment is valid and suggests it’s not possible for a human to know something from nothing
Just for questioning their intelligence? 🤨 Ha.😂👏🏽 You got to be kidding when you have gone or is going through the struggles of school atleast once in your life you ask yourself that question. Straight A's or not so really that alone is not enough to support your statement.
I was very gifted when I was younger. Now my grades are dropping because school isn't about learning anymore, it's just a lot of unnecessary content which needs to be memorised
Sometimes it's just ticking boxes, a few days ago in my geography classes went on a feildwork trip journey there and back was 6 hours and it costed about £14 we were on the beach for literally less than 15 minutes to do beach profiling measuring pole distance and an angle, and then we came home biggest waste of time in my entire life and we were taught like nursery children, we couldn't touch the water explore or anything and had to stay in the group of teachers, I'm 16! everyone else in the class is 17
My mom was a straight A student, and she tells me every now and then that all she did was study and memorise what was required and nowadays she doesn’t even remember what she studied since she only tried to reach the maximum possible score on the exams. She then told me that the ability to question everything within reason makes you very smart in comparison to someone who just blindly memorizes everything that the upcoming exam requires.
That’s why people with adhd struggle in school. They aren’t made to retain information that isn’t worth our time. We only pay attention to the things we enjoy, which is why (personally) I had terrible grades in math and very high grades in history. we are only passionate about the subject, not the grade it gives us
I feel like he doesn't believe in being inherently smart as what he accomplished is through his own hard work but seeing others step forward made him not want to discredit them.
Honestly I’m a 4.0 student and I have to say I truly do not believe I am any smarter than kids that fail. I just have the gift of memorization so classes like math and science really click and are easy. Classes where I have to do essays I struggle with, but I persevere and do my best. But I do understand that some kids do not have that memorization and perseverance.
Generally smart people know enough to know that they dont actually know all that much relative to how much knowledge is out there. Its called the dunning kruger effect
@@JasmineHatake you can't really blame teachers man 80% of my professors sucked ass you have to take responsibility and teach urself using TH-cam, tutoring center, group projects etc. Unless the teacher assigns wayyy too much homework and doesn't even go over it then you shouldn't even complain cuz that's how college is now
After graduating college I learned that grades do not matter to an extent. As long as you don't fail classes you can still secure great jobs. I did poorly in high school but excelled in college. My roommates had worse grades than me but graduated into jobs making 100k plus. Grades are a reflection of how well you performed in the lens of a curriculum set by a teacher.
Adults are more exposed to the real world so they adapt to it and incorporate it with their personality and life. I'm sure these kids will change and will change. Although I'm for the balance of keeping the innocence in a person but also growth.
Wouldn't grades measure the effectiveness of what you learned, though? Granted, there has been a more noticeable demand for grades ( at least in my school ) and that full learning experience has kind of faded away. Now, it's just a race to who gets to the ivies or equally good schools like MIT or Stanford...
And grades are becoming more about memorization and less about comprehension. Its why students don’t remember a majority of the stuff their tested on a month later. If you understand what you’re learning, it’s easier to remember it.
I relate with Naema a lot! She had me in tears when she started explaining the things that go on at home which is why she’s flunking. I hope she understand that she IS smart and it’s not her fault that she was dealt those cards in life. I have faith that she will be something amazing in this world ❤️
everyone out here talking about “how smart is cooper, omg!” But can we just talk about how mature these kids are??? like they’re so much more mature and they listen and respect each other’s ideas when so many adults can act so rude and just be mean to the other side.
It's ironic, I never had straight A's in high school but everybody knew to come to me for answers. Grade's don't show intellect. On the contrary, they do show work ethic, and I'm very lazy.
I finally found a comment that actually makes sense. I get kinda good grades but I'm hella lazy and kinda angsty all the time so if a lot of people, like maybe more than 20 people come to me for help, I feel like they're using me and I would just say, "Then why didn't you study?" Kinda ironic since I don't study too ;-; I just listen to the teachers more because as much as I love reading, I *hate* reading textbooks ._.
louis Glasses Our generation is so self aware and sufficient, maybe because of the way we were treated when we came up. I feel like adults believe they’re superior and loom over us just because they’re adults. Mini baby-boomers, and we’re the ones that have to counteract their cockiness. I’m a lifeguard and I couldn’t tell you how many days I’ve had to tell adults to act right more than kids.
As an a-b student, I worried about my grades a lot. I was very competitive and in the advanced IB classes. Highschool IB is harder than any college. I also had a social life. I chose no sleep instead. Grades to me were always about how well you handle stress more than intelligence. There's two kinds of intelligence. Emotional intelligence versus analytical intelligence. School doesn't teach enough emotional intelligence.
IB messed me up and got me into academic burn out. In this burn out my grades dropped dramatically. I'm currently trying to make up for this by dropping IB and taking summer classes.
@@sgnti7164 Yes actually. I had IB graduates tell me first hand when they got to college that my schools IB program was harder than any college course. I took biology in 9th, chemistry and physics in 10th, and 11th grade was IB biology, effectively biochemistry. I had 4 years of Spanish, with the expectation that I'd write full essays by year 4. I was doing government and economics in 9th grade, word history AP in 10th, US history AP in 11th and 19th 20th century history for 12th grade. I had co directed and wrote my own plays for IB theatere. There was advanced algebra and geometry in 9th. I took pre Calc in 10th. 11th grade was IB math wich was mostly an exponential review. 12th was full calculus. And for English I had ancient epics in 9th, 10th was western world English classics, 11th was IB level analysis and writing. I did SO much in so little time all with more tests than the average highschool class. I worked my butt off to get what I could. I had to do full presentations in a foreign language, do homework for hours until it was late into the night, and do all the regular highschool requirements on top of that. You cannot tell me that YOU had accomplished all that in 4 years of highschool, let alone if I add two years of college. The IB program is very difficult and has a low rate for handing out diplomas. College is no where near as difficult as that.
@@Marshmallow95506 also idk why u had to write a paragraph to seek validation in yourself by bragging about the classes you took in highschool Im sorry but it isn’t impressive you took worthless classes just to validate your own intelligence just because it had the stigma of being a difficult course
Nadia Favela omg i’m literally you. i also admit all the time to my parents that i could improve my grades but i just don’t want to. and they put me down bc of it
@@biianeeyy good. Maybe you'll learn some respect. I don't have kids but when I do if they say anything like "oh I could get good grades if I wanted to I just don't care" I would take away all forms of entertainment. I'd rather they say that they can't do better than say I just don't care
I knew a girl in my class who barely showed up to school, always went on holidays yet still got straight A’s. When she bunked lessons she studied by herself at home and when she showed up to school she had her head in the books. Some people just learn better by themselves, she probably found the class teaching speed too slow for her learning speed. She also only came to school to see her friends and collect each subject’s syllabus.
i had someone like that in my class, the worst thing about her is she distracted her friends and the rest of the class who were not going to be studying at home so they needed to focus in class. well she is on her way to becoming a doctor and they did get good grades.
i did that. id come to school 2-3 days a week and schedule my tests on those days. it worked better for me especially because of the horrible situation i was in.
heh, is that me? I do that... kinda. I was depressed for a loong time in school, so now whenever I go back (I'm still technically in school, but I'm never actually there) all the memories (or lack thereof) just feel too heavy. Sometimes it's nice.... especially when i get that rare reminder of a NICE memory. But I haven't been there in 3 months, and I feel the best I've felt in a long time.
It's not just her. Research states that students only retain maybe 10% of what they're taught in a single class period. Learning is mostly self taught because we have to actively practice whatever concept was given to us. The skill comes in *knowing* the right way to study to retain that information. Your friend just cared enough to take initiate to continue to learn the material on her own lol, shes not some anomaly😂😂
I was a 4.0 student throughout grade school until my junior year of high school. I dealt with a lot of instability in my family and it became overwhelming in high school. I went from straight A’s to graduating with a 1.9 GPA. It makes me sad to hear these flunking students say they deserve the grades they get. Looking back, I genuinely think one’s support system and environment determines one’s grades. Sure, there are going to be the outliers who can excel even in difficult circumstances, but for the overwhelming majority of students, it will be near impossible to get a 4.0 without the help of others. If I graduated with a 4.0, I don’t think I would be able to say I could relate to flunking students. When you fail, there’s a stigma and a deep insecurity you develop from experiencing systematic injustice in the educational system… it’s not something people can truly relate to until they’ve experienced it.
It’s shows that grades matter but not as much as people think they matter a lot but out of the straight A’s kids cooper was the only with real common sense and the ability to understand others and their hardships
So you’re telling me cooper is not only a straight A student but also an actor plus brownie points for being so mature and charming... I have so much respect and love for him
Not true (for me at least), I used to be a flunking student bc of mental health problems and other stuff.. but everyone (family, teachers) believed in me and supported me but I still couldn't get good grades, but something in me changed and now I'm a pretty good student.. and i still feel free.
Booris Tiana it’s a known strategy for schools to focus hardest on their average students because straight A’s will achieve good grades, and the flunkers will flunk. That way the school reaches highest success rate.
I'm a failing student, I try as hard as I can but just getting out of bed is a struggle at this point. When i sit down to do homework i end up not being able to think about anything that's homework related. I'm not someone who can sit down and do something that requires to just sit there in silence and think, because all I can think about is not being here. I dont know what to do at this point.
@@boredd_isa244this! Playing piano music or jazz in the background has been very soothing for me when I do any homework. Helps me relax and take it one step at a time
@Jamal BBCLife I was a flunking student in high school and I'm now about to graduate from a high ranking law school this year. You shouldn't make such rash generalizations.
Procrastination is such a big problem with straight a students because many of them are also perfectionists, and being a perfectionist EVERYTHING has to be perfect or nothing at all. If you don’t have the perfect tools or perfect state of mind to start your paper, you just won’t start your paper at all and consciously waste your time while drowning in guilt that you aren’t doing your paper but still not doing it.
Thomas Clarkson well this is kind of the principe of such videos. See if these traits define them or not. Btw being a single parent isn’t always a mistake
I got straight As in high school (4.7 GPA). I ended up getting into my dream college which I am very thankful for, but it didn't feel like my grades is what got me in. The people around me in college didn't all get straight As, but we all shared a common ground of being passionate in something. The motive is shifting from perfect grades to driven mindsets. I honestly wish I knew that sooner. I'm not a straight A student anymore, but I feel much more fulfilled. Having been both a straight A student and a regular C and B student, grades do not define intelligence at all! Like one person said, cheating is so common. If you want the grade, you'll find a way to get it. If you want to learn the material/subject, you'll find a way to understand it. Grades != intelligence.
This wasn’t brought up in the video but I feel like a lot of people believe flunking students are the only ones with problems and straight A students have happier home lives or something, whereas so many of the straight A students I knew were severely depressed, had eating disorders or harmed themselves, etc. And everyone always put them on a pedestal of either despising them for being smart and “happy” or dismissed the idea that they may be struggling.
Yes I completely agreee. I always was a straight A student but I used to struggle with math and i remember in high school i literally lost 5 kgs and had panic attacks almost daily around finals because i was too scared of failing math and letting my parents down but all my friends were like 'you must be sailing through exams smoothly with everything pre revised and all hahaa'
@@evaniar6502 yes! This is so true. I work SOOOO hard to get good grades that... Let me give an example. I was struggling with biology a bit last semester. I would get A's on the classwork and high C's on the tests. Even tho my parents didn't say anything, they were SO disappointed in me
Even if you are a genius, you still gotta work hard to get straight A’s so I think they are are almost interchangeable (kind of like all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares type of thing)
I like these kids. Very humble and respectful of one another. When it comes down to it it's about respect, and that's the first step towards friendship
Some people finish high school at 17 because of cutoff dates, and schools that offer dual enrollment with local colleges usually graduate students that also have freshman or sophomore college student standing (or even an entire associates degree) and sometimes they can transfer all those credits to their university and start as a 2nd or 3rd year student directly
some schools have dual enrollment programs, like I'm a junior at the high school I attend, and also a sophomore at the college I go to. i'm working on getting my associates before my high school graduation.
The worst feeling is when you always used to be on top of the class and in your final year you are the worst student out of all. That's me. I am scared. To dissapoint my parents and to fail school all together.
I could be wrong, but I’d be highly willing to say that most people who think Cooper is intelligent is because he’s charismatic, well thought out and open minded
i don’t think my comment is very clear. my comment is not about cooper personally it’s just pointing out that everyone in the comments is saying that everyone is praising cooper.
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@@edovale1391 exactly😂
Do all 1st generation students think the same?
Lmao
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Cooper is going places, being able to see both sides. He seems like a cool kid
J R seriously some students are born smarter. However intellect is just one aspect of a person and there also that struggle of staying sane with such a powerful gift . I like Cooper.
It's a quality most people don't possess. I hope he never loses that.
He was in True Detective. Ass-pen Conroy lmao
@@Ifimridinwithmytruckopen cooper wasnt born smarter. He's just a hard worker.
@@supertrollfaxnoprinter3329 that's what more people need to understand. Getting grades is about 10% intelligence and 90% work ethic. When you don't understand something at first, all you need to do is just put in some effort and eventually you'll get it, I've been there many times.
These teenagers sound more grounded logical and mature than some of the adults who come on this show
Unnecessary comparison
i love your videos :")
Most "adults" really don't have life any more figured out than anyone else, especially when they try to over-emphasis their intelligence and superiority over others.
I like ur channel
Luke Alexander no 🧢
These kids acted MUCH more mature than the adults in some of these middle ground episodes.
AverageGirl true. Haha
*most of these middle ground episodes
SARISNU .R k.
*Has flashbacks*
The flat-earthers Vs scientists 🥴
Cooper is really cool, the way he's not arrogant about his grades and tries his hardest to relate to others. He seems like the kind of person who would make a really loyal friend.
he was a zombie in 2013
@@cristobitches3700 what 😭
@@lemonbirdo what?
@@lemonbirdo oh damn I didn’t know that
yeah
My teacher has a sign that says “Don’t let schooling get in the way of your education” and I really feel that.
deep
You go to school for education. Just know the difference between education and indoctrination
My teacher. Also Einstein
@@justanotherweirdo11 lol
Like Elon Musk said "Don't confuse education with schooling, I didn't go to Harvard, but people who work for me did"
Cooper is such a homie, he's the most reasonable
Sinai Yes, Cooper and Randy are my favorites
Krish Dutta same
@Sinai Hi person with a similar name!!!
@@stripp1219 and everybody always calls me siani lol
Honestly tho
"I feel like my mom looks at my paper and says girl this that new math, i can't help with that"
That hit different...
Crystal Minds So true 😂😂
Math i math
It really does
I’m lucky my step dad has a math degree
woah ikr
These kids are by far the most unprejudiced, empathetic and respectful people I've ever seen on Middle Ground. The way they listen to each other without interrupting or dismissing anyone is truly heart warming.
They all go through the same struggle, that is school.
If only the flat earthers were like that
This younger generation is super emotionally intelligent
@@ralphtyrell6439probably not, theres gen z's out there that will just give you a headache
Prejudice is taught…
It’s crazy how Cooper was hesitating on joining the “I am smart” agreement, because I felt as if he was the brightest one in the room.
I noticed, too
I felt the same omg ! I feel like he’s so wise & mature... he’s thought so much about everything
The more you know, the more questions you can ask and this leads to a sense of uncertainty that ignorant people do not suffer from.
His hesitation is only proof of his wisdom and intelligence to me, he's smart, but knows how little he actually knows.
It’s called the dun Krueger effect pretty interesting imo
Cooper seems like such a nice and gentle person
He is indeed smart and thinks out of the box
I want to know him
He and Tom Holland must be related.
D.a .n.a j’adore le concepttt
@D.a .n.a
Finally an episode where everyone made valid points and everyone wasn’t arguing.
Anna L lol watch the Democrat republican one
Travis Jones that one aggravated me so much
Gee, I wonder why
Watch feminism vs masculinity
and this is the one where they are all TEENAGERS. I find that funny 😅
1.8 gpa in high school, 3.9 gpa in college, currently in medical school. The only difference in getting straight A’s is dedication. High school gpa doesn’t mean anything. Find your passion, leave the childish behaviors behind, and grind.
How did you enter medical school with a 1.9 GPA?
@@clairobscur7697 cs he had a 3.9 gpa in college… the real question is how did he get into college with a 1.8 gpa
@@clairobscur7697 Maybe he went to a community college then transferred to a 4 year college
It happens a lot and a lot of people became very successful that way
Bro 1.8? Were you trying to fail💀
@@KitKat-vy5pk Who spat in your coffee omg
cooper's parents should be so proud of having a son that's really smart and self-aware.
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@@Casey11. omg i didn't even notice this comment had a lot of likes haha
It pisses me when he said he wanted to relate to what it feels like to get a fail... No you really don't, you can try to understand.
@@shadofreally it's like a humble brag,isn't it?But probably he's just too perfectionist or something and can't possibly risk his grades to know how failure truly feels
plain_ yoghurt but I think you should understand that for people like him getting a B or a C does feel like your failing because you set a standard for yourself and once you don’t meet it you become disappointed feeling like a failure for not being able to meet that standard as a person myself who is like cooper I could understand how the flunkies feel in some ways of course I’m not necessarily flunking or doing bad in school but sometimes we can understand I especially relate to giving up on work half way and procrastinating doing things last minute I truly don’t deserve the grades i get
Cooper that kid that was a nerd in middle school, then became less socially awkward and now everyone just likes him
haha nice
Yup
Me
Or they were a nerd in elementary school.
That's just like me
What a respectful group of people. Jeez they were more civil than the adults on this show
Exactly! They are so respectful. I felt no rude tension. No passive aggressiveness. They were all so chill.
And that’s on Periodt
Kids are great! I’m so glad the coming generation carries societies best qualities!
To be fair, the topic is much less controversial.
Its ironic that the next generation learn more about what not to do than on what are we taught to do .
Honestly grades are a sign of work ethic more than anything else.
Truth.
Grades are a testament to A) dedication, and more secondarily B) how well you absorb knowledge.
@@platosfavoritestudent6509 I'd say how well you absorb knowledge through a very particular method.
@@Nothing-ce8uv precise
They can be but not always
"Don't ever let school get in the way of your education." - Mark Twain
Don't let school get in the way of your education
I think that just reminded me that my purpose of going to school is to better myself and my community, grow my knowledge on how to do better understand the complex ideas of how things work so I can solve it, I want to go to a good school like Rice because I want to make sure I can have the experience to project back into my community, my school is not the definition of my intelligence, I can learn anything I want and test scores don't reflect my knowledge and understanding
LMAO💀💀 my school grades are the only things I genuinely care about I’m not learning anything just here for the grade
Reminds me of when in Rick and Morty, Rick said: “School isn’t a place for smart people.”
@@v1ncebuthesjesus135 "You sit around and see someone say 2+2 is 4, then the guy in the front waits for you to say 2+2 is 4"
@@yong_yin_7373 uhm I'm not even gonna
“I can’t relate to the other side” none of the straight A’s kids went to the seats. They know how it feels to fail. It shows
But someone on the flunking side brought this up and I agree: maybe they can understand failing a test or not doing well in a subject, but it’s not the same. I think unless they have flunked in the past, it’s hard for them to truly relate.
@@hannahbloom relate means "feel sympathy for or identify with". So like if you got straight A's in school but then got a bad grade once i think you could then identify or feel sympathy to the person whos getting them all the time. Relate doesnt really mean that you have to be just like the one youre relating to.
Entropy of Levanter - yes, but my personal feeling is that failing a test and failing a class are quite different, so even if you fail a test, it’s not really the same thing/feeling/problem
@@hannahbloom well i still disagree but i understand what you mean so im not gonna argue more:)
they have to fail to get Grade As, that's how it works. the smartest people have to have got every answer wrong. As a wise man said "make every mistake possible and you'll never fail".
Cooper is the one I’d say is most genuinely smart. He’s on the straight A side but is also so self aware.
He's got a good head on his shoulders.
Yeah it makes me really happy how self aware he is- I wish the world had more ppl like that
Connor's a sweet human I love how connected he is.
just the way he carries himself is so mature, it's not arrogant, which makes all the difference
Yeah. He was not snobbish and empathetic.
I completely agree with Cooper's statement about different learning styles, and also different skills and kinds of intelligence. The fact that the education system only values a certain set of skills and learning styles might be its greatest flaw.
@@ethanweimer-kopf6907 Imma check that out
In america* most developed countries have a better education system than the US
"Might be"? It most definitely is.
@@SierNotsruht not really, the US probably has the best education by far. You can look up top 100 colleges and see :)
@@baljeetpatel1745 The education system is not just colleges.
Not only is Cooper a A+ Student, he’s also very intelligent with his words and how he understands both sides.
Yep he be hittin different
Well I didn’t expect 200 likes
He’s also cute
Cooper is a whole package
It’s bc he decided to take a different approach with his grades. Not just focusing on the good grades themselves but focusing on the development he puts when achieving those grades. Ik a lot of students think it’s all about grades but it’s really all about how you approach those grades and doing the best you can to develop that work ethic. That’s why Cooper is the way he is. People should really follow that for hs and in college(if you choose that route), to set success in their career path.
when randy said “there’s a homework assignment, but there’s a skateboard” i felt that.
how did you learn to feel words
mushroom block it’s an art really
I felt it, lmao the skate life
That is pretty lazy.
Eric Lopez not sure what you mean but skateboarding isn't easy
I would love to see this same episode with older people around their 30’s who were straight-A or flunking students in school. A conversation reflecting on how their grades actually affected their futures (if at all) would be dope.
Love this idea.
that9boy this is brilliant
YES!!
They wouldn't remember
Before tapping on the video thats what i thought it would be. I hope there is another video about this
I was top 10 of my class in high school and am currently getting praise from my college teachers. Thing is, I don't know half the things I turn in. I feel brainless. It's more as though my hands are the ones that do the thinking rather than myself. I'm not smart at all, I just know how to get my way around a teacher. Then again, school is not something I'm passionate about. If it were, I'd probably put in true effort.
What class are you in??
It seems like you underestimate yourself or have an evaluation of yourself that may differ from what's true. You are an intelligent person. Intelligence isn't just about content - it's those other things too. Teaching and learning is relational.
You want somethings that makes you understand the topic at hand?
Make a group of friends to study with, and put yourself into the position of teacher.
It's more about the fact that you are turning the stuff in, and many other people are not.
knowing your way around people is also a very valuable skill later down the road, so have more pride in that skill C:
Cooper is the guy who tries to relate to both sides of the story. Stan him
Tonight's big winner.
employee of the month
Interstellar
Cooper looks like the main protagonist of some highschool drama TV show
Love that
as a teacher "i don't get as much help as I would want" breaks my heart
Purple Nebulae wish I had u as a teacher then cuz most teachers that I be havin nowadays don’t care and just want to get the lesson over with, and at parent teacher conferences they gonna tell my mom that I’m doing something wrong and I need help at home 🤦🏾♀️
Purple Nebulae it’s not even that y’all aren’t there. I do online school so you have to reach out and I’m just nervous. I know y’all are there but my social anxiety ..I hate that I have to talk to people
Alyssa Faith same
Yes, teachers have to help students. But why is the student not getting enough help. Is it cause the teacher isn't qualified enough? Or is it cause she has not really reach out. However, the students themselves have to put in effort to reach out, and find whatever ways to do it. Be it additional classes, tuitions or even self study on their own. Not just saying they dont get enough help and not doing much about it. They are teenagers already they could voice out to parents etc and reach out
Having been a student with ADHD that's how I felt most of the time. The linear path of learning left me feeling behind in algebra. I ended highschool with a 3.29 GPA. When I taught myself years later via TH-cam, it clicked.
Cooper and his parents deserve a gold star.
true asf
@Tiffany Wart havent heard a tiffany in a damn hot minute
@Tiffany Wart nobody besides cartoons name people tiffany
His empathy !
@Tiffany Wart that's tough
I got straight As through high school, and then failed half of university. School isn’t one size fits all, and education fails students. Education is so standardized and once you are out of highschool education is all to make money. It’s quite sad we still learn the same way we did 100 years ago.
I was the opposite, barely made it through high school and straight A’s in University. So random
@@sarah-qn1qz what do you study
@@ariamahmed3434 acting
@@dyingpatient1974 😂😂😂
Same here, the instruction quality in university is terrible, I've never thought there could be teachers this bad. If only attendance weren't mandatory...
Bruh Randy is spitting facts: “It’s how you use the knowledge that you have that makes you smart.”
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Young people talking without arguing > older people being passive agressive to eachother
Antonio Damoura2 One example versus hundreds. Teenagers are not always like this.
Source: Am a teenager who realises Jubilee picks certain types of people.
TheÜberLord certain type of people?
I dont care about statistic bias and selection, its nice to seen young people having open, respectful discourse
@@antoniodamoura631 a
Gen z>> boomers
randy and cooper seem like polar opposites that would attract if they ever become friends
Word is, they're now Best Friends.
@@KR-jg7gc for real?
@@KR-jg7gc yes
I mean, most of guys easily become friends. It's cool actually, no matter how far they are from each other's personality or whatever
@Carpee Cat read what i said one more time. Most, not all of the guys. Reading comprehension is important.
In all honesty I'm a straight A student, but I never felt like I earned it in school. My brain worked differently because I have some really bad ADHD, but it still worked a lot faster because it just put things together faster than everyone else. It gave me this facade that I was super intelligent and smarter than everyone throughout middle school and it made me arrogant.
It was a lot different in high school when I finally put together I just learned I wasn't more intelligent than the other students around me. One of my closest friends struggled so much throughout middle school, then one day he asked me for some help it finally clicked. He was having trouble with the way they showed him to do something in math, and I realized that was the same problem I had had with it, but I had come up with a different formula to get it done. I showed him my way and it clicked for him almost immediately, and he started doing the problems faster than I had.
It was remarkable to me and incredibly eye opening. I wasn't any smarter than him, we were just different. Still one of my favorite people and smartest friends.
Everyone has add
@@Ty-cr7pf No they don't...
I have adhd but I guess it just got worse for me in 8th grade bc im unmedicatated and just overall burned out. I used to be an all A student until now and I'm even failing a few classes. I'm disappointed 8h myself tbh but oh well
@@y2kiwii512 charge it ygm
@@anzibzz698 ?
Cooper is so intelligent and mature. He’s still humble despite being a straight A student. He’s going to accomplish so much in life
I love his personality, he was raised really well
He died in a car crash
@@Tawsick
btul ba?
@@Tawsick no
Tawsick really?
I notice that procrastination is a HUGE problem in high school students. I wish there was a class to help us with this problem lol
Id probably procrastinate in that class too
Low-key a mood
Eh, I would procrastinate the homework lol
@@maryzmijski6087 Lol
I think the real problem is that students are often forced to study what they don't care about so they dont put as much effort as compared to the amount of effort they put in something they love. Other times it takes a while to understand certain things and or just plain laziness.
Cooper: **breathes**
Everyone: he’s so sophisticated, he possess so much power, what a wonderful mind
*breathes*
Not to be mean, it's just so frustrating
While others spread positivity and kindness you spread bitterness. Way to go!
lolll i didnt think he was all that but he def conveyed his points properly and rlly well
He was cool, but people really out here callin him an intellectual. Btw I know this is off topic but I like your Kakegurui profile pic.
Straight-A or Flunking, all these kids know how broken the educational system is and what actually defines a valuable person to society. Shame the educational itself is not "smart" enough to know that.
Well it Definately is doing exactly what it was made for lol
High school are made to train kids into factory working it more about control then actually learning
The education system in most other developed countries is better don't generalize because of your narrow world-view, this is mainly an American problem.
@@SierNotsruhtno its not it's in most countries around the world
@@SierNotsruht not at all lmao
Should have had a third group who are literally the middle ground.
Straight C student.
Oh that's me
thats me bro. working the system. I got a perfect 2.0 Associates degree and now I'm a carsalesman making a decent wage lol
The point of this show is to get an average by comparing the two "extremes" of a topic. They want to achieve a middle ground not have it already.
I read a book called A students work for C students a while ago
omg that's me , they needed kids who are in between .
Invite these people back in 10 years and see their progress
everyone like this comment 👆🏻 this has to go up for jubilee to see
Nithun Rajandrean that would be interesting
Yes!!!!!!
Imagine if one of them dies
Kevin Nguyen one probably will
*I'd love to have Cooper as a homie like he is such a cool, empathetic, self aware humble dude*
Kaylah Matano IKR?! I wish he was my friend or better yet my boyfriend😍 He seems like such a good person.
@Ricky Dicky i kind of agree. All the people in d vid were chill but I feel slot of cringe with how much people like Cooper, like yeah his cool, he would be a great friend but like c'mon
Ricky Dicky facts
Honestly like he’s Acc chill asf
I really hope that mental health is addressed at some point when it comes to this topic. I have had depression, anxiety, social anxiety, depersonalization disorder, and trauma for around six years now and was just diagnosed with ADD. I used to be a straight A student, but of course, once quarantine rolled around it made everything worse and now I’m a flunking student. It’s not fun to know you are failing and that people look at you differently now because you have horrible grades.
I feel u 100%
im so sorry girl! You've got what it takes to achieve your goals though, you can do this!!
agreed . it’s genuinely heartbreaking to know others view you as less intelligent when really it’s mental illness .
Yeah, that was me 2 weeks ago. But I realized I was dropping, so talk to people, talk to adults, look online for resources and GO OUTSIDE!! The sun releases endorphins in your brain which is the natural version of cocaine. They activate the same brain chemicals.
Do you know what these issues stem from?
Cooper: h-
Everyone in the comments: he’s so inspiring and I love how he thinks about things
yes
😂
ITS TRUU THO
Facts.
h-
I’m crying at these wholesome teenagers. They’re so kind all of them.
Most of us are
I kinda hate it because it’s unrealistic in a sense
this is what the world doesn't want y'all to see. The world deems teenagers to be so mad and crazy individuals.
Ladies and gentlemen, i proudly announce that the world still have some hope
David Wallace I’m sorry that you’ve been made to feel that way. But let’s instead believe that there are still kind young people out there. I think each of them will leave a positive impact on at least one person each ❤️
okay but the teenagers had a way better conversation than the adults.
Potentially they are just more open to new ideas and understandings than adults
@@hunterscheib6882 Shouldn't adults share their experience?
@@masterchief4189 100% they should give their opinion! But should they keep a closed, unidirectional, us vs them tribal mind set? I have seen countless times when older populations consider their view the only way. It shuts down opportunity for growth and evolution of the mind.
kaleigh carpenter to be fair this is a much less controversial topic than most of the other topics that the adults get. it’s easier to stay civil.
kaleigh carpenter TEAA
My older brother flunked every single class, had to move schools bc of it, came back to our school again, and still flunked. And so he dropped out in 11th grade. He got his GED and instead of taking the 6 week courses to get his GED, he took the tests the first day of class and aced every single one with 100% (except English). Then he joined the marines and got like 1 point off in the asvab test (marines intelligence test) because he is THAT smart. School failed him not bc he didn’t try, or he didn’t know. But he was too smart and had adhd and couldn’t sit through the boredom.
With that, I had he same math teacher as my brother the same year my brother dropped out. When he dropped out my teacher said to me. “He would nap in my class all the time. And if I called on him to answer a question, he’d pick his head up, stare at the question and give the correct answer within 30 seconds. Then lay his head back down and go to sleep”
School is built for teachers pets.
Nice imagination you got there no human can wake up and know thousands of years of advancement in human understanding of maths and sciences English and other subjects you simply living a dream he must have studied at some point before taking those tests
@@abz7800 "I can't do it that fast, so that means no one else can and therefore humanely impossible"
@@panpan9861 if you read the comment again with your tiny intellect you’ll see there’s no mention of a the person actually studying and the commenter acts as if the person just took the test and immediately scored well without prior studying therefore my comment is valid and suggests it’s not possible for a human to know something from nothing
I have ADD but I still tried and put effort onto subjects I myself hate English and a 100% is very high
@@panpan9861"someone on the internet said it it must be true"
Naema has been through so much, and she still raises her sister. She deserves just as much praise as Cooper.
@AK74 , exactly👏
AK74 she’s gorgeous too
This!!!!!
@Natalie Jones , she actually does try though. You might need to watch the video again if you did not see it the first time.
BROTHER! EAT YOUR CEREAL!!
man... cooper even questioned his own intelligence 😢 he's probably the smartest one emotionally and intellectually
We all love Cooper for his life intelligence
Prob a sociopath tbh
@@ArchWolfVegasEditor then all people who question themselves are sociopaths lol he is something called a "genius"
@@ghoul890studios3 or gay,
Just for questioning their intelligence? 🤨
Ha.😂👏🏽
You got to be kidding when you have gone or is going through the struggles of school atleast once in your life you ask yourself that question. Straight A's or not so really that alone is not enough to support your statement.
I want a follow up episode to this in 15 years to see where everyone’s at
same
Same
mcdonalds for the 3 on the left
@@stealingcreation stfu dude
@@stealingcreation yeah they'll probably be eating there while you give them their meal
I was very gifted when I was younger. Now my grades are dropping because school isn't about learning anymore, it's just a lot of unnecessary content which needs to be memorised
I was looking for this comment. Let's try and fight through. More power to y'all
@NeEYaH that's where trade school or college comes in
Absolutely. Post secondary education is a complete farce and it’s all for money
Sometimes it's just ticking boxes, a few days ago in my geography classes went on a feildwork trip journey there and back was 6 hours and it costed about £14 we were on the beach for literally less than 15 minutes to do beach profiling measuring pole distance and an angle, and then we came home biggest waste of time in my entire life and we were taught like nursery children, we couldn't touch the water explore or anything and had to stay in the group of teachers, I'm 16! everyone else in the class is 17
well you are supposed to learn the content and actually understand it, not just mEmorise it mindlessly.
“Letters don’t define me”
Every college/university: I’m about to end these people’s education
Shelly: That's Fallacy!
Erin: That's not Vegan!
100% true
*Bill Gates Laughs in the distance*
Grey Shades 1 being the lowest 9 being the highest
Cooper looks like the nice and nerdy best friend from movies
Like clay from 13 reasons why
He looks like a main character.
@@peronkop it's all fun and games till he has to fight the bully in the bully arc
@@whuddup1249
This becomes an anime and he starts remembering all his friends he made throughout the series.
@@aisha5156 and in a moment of reminiscing bonds and friendships, he strikes down the bully with the ultimate attack. Twelve Form, Book Slam!
Cooper's smart and has straight a's and seems like a cool, popular and likeable guy. It's very hard to be both
I'm both too
Natearl13 lmao, the only missing piece.
@@Natearl13 lmao
@@Natearl13 that is true lol
Not really, I have straight A's and play 2 school sports and am plenty popular
My mom was a straight A student, and she tells me every now and then that all she did was study and memorise what was required and nowadays she doesn’t even remember what she studied since she only tried to reach the maximum possible score on the exams. She then told me that the ability to question everything within reason makes you very smart in comparison to someone who just blindly memorizes everything that the upcoming exam requires.
Hey that's also the exact idea i came up with after realising i was a mindless drone during all of my childhood and most of my adolescence
That’s why people with adhd struggle in school. They aren’t made to retain information that isn’t worth our time. We only pay attention to the things we enjoy, which is why (personally) I had terrible grades in math and very high grades in history. we are only passionate about the subject, not the grade it gives us
“I am smart.”
And smartest person in the group hesitated the longest.
Cooper has an incredible character and emotional intelligence capacity.
I feel like he doesn't believe in being inherently smart as what he accomplished is through his own hard work but seeing others step forward made him not want to discredit them.
Honestly I’m a 4.0 student and I have to say I truly do not believe I am any smarter than kids that fail. I just have the gift of memorization so classes like math and science really click and are easy. Classes where I have to do essays I struggle with, but I persevere and do my best. But I do understand that some kids do not have that memorization and perseverance.
@@lemonman394 I also struggle with essays, like, for me at least, they don't connect with what I learn.
What exactly made him the smartest?
Generally smart people know enough to know that they dont actually know all that much relative to how much knowledge is out there. Its called the dunning kruger effect
we all know the blonde girl was the one with all the colored pens in middle school
P Kallos she was literally irritating me through the entire video
IM SCREAMBING CJSBSJSNSKXJKNSJS
Not stereotypical at all😒😒
Daphne Oldenburg it’s just a joke lol
Highlighting everything in different color highlighters
School for me:
1. I like the class - I get an A
2. I don’t like the class - I’m going to do the minimum
Jacob Hewitt it’s mainly teachers
My point
Big facts
@@JasmineHatake you can't really blame teachers man 80% of my professors sucked ass you have to take responsibility and teach urself using TH-cam, tutoring center, group projects etc. Unless the teacher assigns wayyy too much homework and doesn't even go over it then you shouldn't even complain cuz that's how college is now
diamond beatsx Whats the point of the teacher if you’re just going to teach yourself?
After graduating college I learned that grades do not matter to an extent. As long as you don't fail classes you can still secure great jobs. I did poorly in high school but excelled in college. My roommates had worse grades than me but graduated into jobs making 100k plus. Grades are a reflection of how well you performed in the lens of a curriculum set by a teacher.
They should do more with teens, they are so much more respectful than the adults
millenials in a nutshell
@Juhan1B1bell1 No we're not actually. You mean Generation Y right? Cuz if you do, you couldn't be more far from the truth.
Adults are more exposed to the real world so they adapt to it and incorporate it with their personality and life. I'm sure these kids will change and will change. Although I'm for the balance of keeping the innocence in a person but also growth.
Lily Litwinko
Exactly,like in the flat earthers talk to scientists video. The adults just kept yelling and laughing at each other
And less annoying
Randy is such a coming of age teen flick main character
Lmao ikr
He's really likeable though XD they all are
Lol cut
Skateboard and everything
Randy is a mood
I just feel like school isn’t about learning anymore but about grades.
Finished high school two years ago and your sentence just remembered me all the hypocrisy that was present about "learning"
Wouldn't grades measure the effectiveness of what you learned, though? Granted, there has been a more noticeable demand for grades ( at least in my school ) and that full learning experience has kind of faded away. Now, it's just a race to who gets to the ivies or equally good schools like MIT or Stanford...
And grades are becoming more about memorization and less about comprehension. Its why students don’t remember a majority of the stuff their tested on a month later. If you understand what you’re learning, it’s easier to remember it.
BrokeSamson exactly what I’m saying
@BrokeSamson As a Vietnamese myself who lives in the States, thats no different from any school in the world.
I relate with Naema a lot! She had me in tears when she started explaining the things that go on at home which is why she’s flunking. I hope she understand that she IS smart and it’s not her fault that she was dealt those cards in life. I have faith that she will be something amazing in this world ❤️
everyone out here talking about “how smart is cooper, omg!” But can we just talk about how mature these kids are??? like they’re so much more mature and they listen and respect each other’s ideas when so many adults can act so rude and just be mean to the other side.
That's the main thing I noticed. This generation makes me proud honestly.
*That's because they are on camera and they have to be mature or else they would be make fun of, DUH*
@@Gior004 that doesn't explain why the adults cant be as polite as them even though they're on camera too lol
I agree
@@Gior004 at least they even have the ability to act mature. even that in itself is mature.
It's ironic, I never had straight A's in high school but everybody knew to come to me for answers.
Grade's don't show intellect. On the contrary, they do show work ethic, and I'm very lazy.
THANK YOU!
YES OMG I AGREE everyone even thought I was an honor student. I’m fcking lazy.
@@justme7410 same
I finally found a comment that actually makes sense. I get kinda good grades but I'm hella lazy and kinda angsty all the time so if a lot of people, like maybe more than 20 people come to me for help, I feel like they're using me and I would just say, "Then why didn't you study?" Kinda ironic since I don't study too ;-; I just listen to the teachers more because as much as I love reading, I *hate* reading textbooks ._.
THIS HAD TO BE SAID!!
I like the fact that when younger people come to talk, they are a lot more calm, friendly, and understanding than some adults on the show
louis Glasses Our generation is so self aware and sufficient, maybe because of the way we were treated when we came up. I feel like adults believe they’re superior and loom over us just because they’re adults. Mini baby-boomers, and we’re the ones that have to counteract their cockiness. I’m a lifeguard and I couldn’t tell you how many days I’ve had to tell adults to act right more than kids.
No because other topics are usually more important and serious and triggering
@@angadsingh9314 This is probably one of the most triggering and important topics lmao. What you on about?
Christina Fucci really? Is it more important than debates on the death penalty, atheism, and communism/capitalism? I think not
@@angadsingh9314 lol you're getting triggered right now.
As an a-b student, I worried about my grades a lot. I was very competitive and in the advanced IB classes. Highschool IB is harder than any college. I also had a social life. I chose no sleep instead. Grades to me were always about how well you handle stress more than intelligence. There's two kinds of intelligence. Emotional intelligence versus analytical intelligence. School doesn't teach enough emotional intelligence.
IB messed me up and got me into academic burn out. In this burn out my grades dropped dramatically. I'm currently trying to make up for this by dropping IB and taking summer classes.
I always worry about my grades a lot too
Highschool IB harder than any college? R u serious lmao
@@sgnti7164 Yes actually. I had IB graduates tell me first hand when they got to college that my schools IB program was harder than any college course. I took biology in 9th, chemistry and physics in 10th, and 11th grade was IB biology, effectively biochemistry. I had 4 years of Spanish, with the expectation that I'd write full essays by year 4. I was doing government and economics in 9th grade, word history AP in 10th, US history AP in 11th and 19th 20th century history for 12th grade. I had co directed and wrote my own plays for IB theatere. There was advanced algebra and geometry in 9th. I took pre Calc in 10th. 11th grade was IB math wich was mostly an exponential review. 12th was full calculus. And for English I had ancient epics in 9th, 10th was western world English classics, 11th was IB level analysis and writing. I did SO much in so little time all with more tests than the average highschool class. I worked my butt off to get what I could. I had to do full presentations in a foreign language, do homework for hours until it was late into the night, and do all the regular highschool requirements on top of that. You cannot tell me that YOU had accomplished all that in 4 years of highschool, let alone if I add two years of college. The IB program is very difficult and has a low rate for handing out diplomas. College is no where near as difficult as that.
@@Marshmallow95506 also idk why u had to write a paragraph to seek validation in yourself by bragging about the classes you took in highschool Im sorry but it isn’t impressive you took worthless classes just to validate your own intelligence just because it had the stigma of being a difficult course
props to nadia for not sugarcoating her lack of effort, that's so brave to just admit that "yeah I could try harder but i don't or i don't want to"
Nadia Favela you’re so pretty🤗 I’m glad you spoke your mind about this
I do the same, but uhh. I don’t get what you might call “praise” 😅😅
Nadia Favela omg i’m literally you. i also admit all the time to my parents that i could improve my grades but i just don’t want to. and they put me down bc of it
thats not brave, its called being lazy and disrespecting your parents who expect you to provide for yourself and them later on.
@@biianeeyy good. Maybe you'll learn some respect. I don't have kids but when I do if they say anything like "oh I could get good grades if I wanted to I just don't care" I would take away all forms of entertainment. I'd rather they say that they can't do better than say I just don't care
y’all should do this with adults, to see where they ended up regardless of their grades
life's about connections not grades!
Yes please!
@@janpieterszooncoen2550 hence the idea
Please make this happen!
Yes!
I knew a girl in my class who barely showed up to school, always went on holidays yet still got straight A’s. When she bunked lessons she studied by herself at home and when she showed up to school she had her head in the books. Some people just learn better by themselves, she probably found the class teaching speed too slow for her learning speed.
She also only came to school to see her friends and collect each subject’s syllabus.
i had someone like that in my class, the worst thing about her is she distracted her friends and the rest of the class who were not going to be studying at home so they needed to focus in class. well she is on her way to becoming a doctor and they did get good grades.
If this is high school, she legally had to attend. If this is college, a lot of straight As skip classes because they know their learning styles.
i did that. id come to school 2-3 days a week and schedule my tests on those days. it worked better for me especially because of the horrible situation i was in.
heh, is that me? I do that... kinda. I was depressed for a loong time in school, so now whenever I go back (I'm still technically in school, but I'm never actually there) all the memories (or lack thereof) just feel too heavy. Sometimes it's nice.... especially when i get that rare reminder of a NICE memory. But I haven't been there in 3 months, and I feel the best I've felt in a long time.
It's not just her. Research states that students only retain maybe 10% of what they're taught in a single class period. Learning is mostly self taught because we have to actively practice whatever concept was given to us. The skill comes in *knowing* the right way to study to retain that information. Your friend just cared enough to take initiate to continue to learn the material on her own lol, shes not some anomaly😂😂
I was a 4.0 student throughout grade school until my junior year of high school. I dealt with a lot of instability in my family and it became overwhelming in high school. I went from straight A’s to graduating with a 1.9 GPA. It makes me sad to hear these flunking students say they deserve the grades they get. Looking back, I genuinely think one’s support system and environment determines one’s grades. Sure, there are going to be the outliers who can excel even in difficult circumstances, but for the overwhelming majority of students, it will be near impossible to get a 4.0 without the help of others.
If I graduated with a 4.0, I don’t think I would be able to say I could relate to flunking students. When you fail, there’s a stigma and a deep insecurity you develop from experiencing systematic injustice in the educational system… it’s not something people can truly relate to until they’ve experienced it.
Best comment here.
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@@kenn.3234 Lol
lmfaooo i love seeing fallout references
Cooper, you’ve been raised very well.
Yeah I'm your first reply 🥳🥳🥳
You don’t know that
They should do homeschooled vs. Public schooled students
And private schools
@@owethunala2632
And catholic schools?
@@agent_ytpg3d17 yea
Oh yeah it’s all coming together
@@agent_ytpg3d17 Catholic and private school are very similar to each other
the last question they were discussing made me cry a little, their answers were so wholesome. They understood each other so perfectly its so amazing
I prefer the way Cooper would see the both sides of the argument. He decided to be mature and understanding, that really says a lot about him.
It’s shows that grades matter but not as much as people think they matter a lot but out of the straight A’s kids cooper was the only with real common sense and the ability to understand others and their hardships
So you’re telling me cooper is not only a straight A student but also an actor plus brownie points for being so mature and charming... I have so much respect and love for him
I've been watching a lot of criminal minds and you kinda described the qualities if a psychopath 💀
@@Dwayne_19K oh nooo lmfao 😭
He's also kinda cute ngl...
What is his full name
@@mariannebaquero8151 I’m not sure but his Instagram is @cooperroth
flunking students are students that everyone lost hope in and straight a students have all eyes at them, both are suffocating
That's why it's wonderful being an average student😂
Booris Tiana I felt that on a spiritual level 😂
Not true (for me at least), I used to be a flunking student bc of mental health problems and other stuff.. but everyone (family, teachers) believed in me and supported me but I still couldn't get good grades, but something in me changed and now I'm a pretty good student.. and i still feel free.
Booris Tiana it’s a known strategy for schools to focus hardest on their average students because straight A’s will achieve good grades, and the flunkers will flunk. That way the school reaches highest success rate.
And flunking students tends to do better in life than straight a students
I'm a failing student, I try as hard as I can but just getting out of bed is a struggle at this point. When i sit down to do homework i end up not being able to think about anything that's homework related. I'm not someone who can sit down and do something that requires to just sit there in silence and think, because all I can think about is not being here. I dont know what to do at this point.
Honestly same
Have you considered working with music or standing up, with brown noises perhaps?
@@boredd_isa244this! Playing piano music or jazz in the background has been very soothing for me when I do any homework. Helps me relax and take it one step at a time
same
try harder cause there's no way YOUR BEST is failing
Cooper really b out here saying he is “cooper” when we all know this boi is peter parker
Blue Animul deadass he reminds me of tom holland’s peter parker SO much that’s what i was thinking throughout the video.
LMAO.
Facts 😂
Yesssss
now bring in adults who were straight A students VS those who were flunking... would love to see what happened to them
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Tara !!!
@Jamal BBCLife I was a flunking student in high school and I'm now about to graduate from a high ranking law school this year. You shouldn't make such rash generalizations.
And tbh... Its totally possible to be a flunking student as well as a straight A student!!😉🙃
Look at garyvee 🔥
Procrastination is such a big problem with straight a students because many of them are also perfectionists, and being a perfectionist EVERYTHING has to be perfect or nothing at all. If you don’t have the perfect tools or perfect state of mind to start your paper, you just won’t start your paper at all and consciously waste your time while drowning in guilt that you aren’t doing your paper but still not doing it.
I'm not even a straight A student and this happens to me alot
Holy hell, this explains me perfectly.
THIS RIGHT HERE
That’s so me!
yhh i’m known in my skl as the perfect english student so before every english paper i do i feel so much pressure 😭
This is a more mature conversation than most adults can hold
Wow... Honestly if a teacher isn't able to put their personal issues aside for grading they shouldn't even be qualified for teaching.
Did u read my mind or smt? I said the EXACT same thing to my parents when we were talking abt this
@@demoomed3869 😂😂😂No but its something alot of people feel strongly about.
To be fair that would eliminate a lot of teachers
No. It distracts them from teaching meaning you are gonna get minutes of inner peace
@@prithvisukka9271 and they deserve to be eliminated.
_Cooper is that one guy in the class you wish you were friends with._
Imagine thinking his name is copper lmao
ah yes, copper. i love that metal! such a chill copper.
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Thanks Mr Cool Guy 😎👍🏻
Conservative Ash welcome bro
“Girl, this that new math.” I literally relate to this on like all levels.
äđrï. bäbï hahahahaha but it’s so true though
that's sad, math is really interesting
My mom does that all the time 😂
That the most common excuse for people who is bad at math or have forgotten how to do the math
Alexis Misselyn to u
Pressure is an issue. Grades become identity and that makes expectations. School work sucks for everyone.
This comment section is 50% intellectual discussion and 50% hopping on the Cooper bandwagon.
I don’t see the appeal
He cute
@@aliced602 he really is tho :>
He really is
What? He genuinely seemed like a cool guy. Idk why, but the other straight A students strikes me as the “silently judgy” type and he wasn’t like that
“Do all single parents think the same”
They did something related to that
“Do all satanists think the same”
Thomas Clarkson no cuz the dad could leave for no reason
@@swishersweets7095 or mom
Thomas Clarkson well this is kind of the principe of such videos. See if these traits define them or not. Btw being a single parent isn’t always a mistake
The Flunking student guy: Wisdom
Straight A guy: Humble
Fr the guys in this one are top tier
Moral of the story? Men >
@@solitaryconfinement1975 no
@@solitaryconfinement1975 boooo
@@solitaryconfinement1975 lol .....are u still stuck in girls vs boys ???.......lame
I got straight As in high school (4.7 GPA). I ended up getting into my dream college which I am very thankful for, but it didn't feel like my grades is what got me in. The people around me in college didn't all get straight As, but we all shared a common ground of being passionate in something. The motive is shifting from perfect grades to driven mindsets. I honestly wish I knew that sooner. I'm not a straight A student anymore, but I feel much more fulfilled. Having been both a straight A student and a regular C and B student, grades do not define intelligence at all! Like one person said, cheating is so common. If you want the grade, you'll find a way to get it. If you want to learn the material/subject, you'll find a way to understand it. Grades != intelligence.
Python reference! Nice!
Only crap I didn't know a GPA could go that high
I agree! And also, CS major? :)
@@Stewarew maybe its a 5 pt scale
haha I just learned that in my CS1 class
Cooper: I....
People: okay he's definetely an intellectual.
I...
coop oh hey coop
Jihan Putra HES so cute tho
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@@raytas9140 right?!?!?
This wasn’t brought up in the video but I feel like a lot of people believe flunking students are the only ones with problems and straight A students have happier home lives or something, whereas so many of the straight A students I knew were severely depressed, had eating disorders or harmed themselves, etc. And everyone always put them on a pedestal of either despising them for being smart and “happy” or dismissed the idea that they may be struggling.
idekanymore at least someone knows
Yes! .... Yes yes yes yes yes!
Yes I completely agreee. I always was a straight A student but I used to struggle with math and i remember in high school i literally lost 5 kgs and had panic attacks almost daily around finals because i was too scared of failing math and letting my parents down but all my friends were like 'you must be sailing through exams smoothly with everything pre revised and all hahaa'
I completely agree, does anybody also get pressured by others expectations of you? And when you don't meet those expectations, you're a failure?
@@evaniar6502 yes! This is so true. I work SOOOO hard to get good grades that... Let me give an example. I was struggling with biology a bit last semester. I would get A's on the classwork and high C's on the tests. Even tho my parents didn't say anything, they were SO disappointed in me
“Do all people with a criminal record think the same?”
Hsgehdh Hduejd theyve already done that
Hsgehdh Hduejd they take a minor traffic light ticket guy and some serial killer
Omg yes!
they couldn't have chosen better people. I loved this episode and they all are very smart and kind
I would like to see prodigies/geniuses who get straight A's vs hard working students who get straight A's.
Twisted Fate YESSSS
i think that’s more for a spectrum video: “do all straight-a students think the same?”
This! Yes! This!
YES
Even if you are a genius, you still gotta work hard to get straight A’s so I think they are are almost interchangeable (kind of like all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares type of thing)
They should do one with Successful Drop-Outs vs Successful Graduates.
success is so subjective tho
Yess
@@leylayurtsever8127 that’s a point too
Rappers vs bankers
Successful drop-outs: *Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk start walking in*
I like these kids. Very humble and respectful of one another. When it comes down to it it's about respect, and that's the first step towards friendship
dang. u got a like from the channel and ur comment only has 3 likes
they arent kids
@@sinkless7614 kids are under 18
@@jeffpenpap no
@@sinkless7614 you're right. They aren't kids. They're young, smart, mature human beings
things in my life don't distract me from school. school distracts me from life
Well said
Teacher: the test isn’t confusing
The test: “ 16 I’m going into my senior year and I’m also a freshman in college”
Some people finish high school at 17 because of cutoff dates, and schools that offer dual enrollment with local colleges usually graduate students that also have freshman or sophomore college student standing (or even an entire associates degree) and sometimes they can transfer all those credits to their university and start as a 2nd or 3rd year student directly
@@srigot6211 I don’t understand
Our school has a program with the local community college where you can graduate with your high school diploma and your associates degree
some schools have dual enrollment programs, like I'm a junior at the high school I attend, and also a sophomore at the college I go to. i'm working on getting my associates before my high school graduation.
Dual enrollment
The worst feeling is when you always used to be on top of the class and in your final year you are the worst student out of all. That's me. I am scared. To dissapoint my parents and to fail school all together.
I might not know what you’re going through specifically, but I hope things get better for you. Good luck and don’t give up!
I can totally relate
Don’t be scared i will pray that God will bless you with good grades😊😊😊
I was a pretty good student in elementary but when I got to HS I am the opposite
I’m failing 2 classes :(
nobody:
everyone in the comments:
cooper: i-
everyone: he’s so intelligent omg
Yes because he's getting good grades and still believes that you don't have to have good grades to be smart. He's open minded.
yeah and he's eloquent and is open-minded and values different perspectives... all in all, a well rounded, intelligent individual
I could be wrong, but I’d be highly willing to say that most people who think Cooper is intelligent is because he’s charismatic, well thought out and open minded
i don’t think my comment is very clear. my comment is not about cooper personally it’s just pointing out that everyone in the comments is saying that everyone is praising cooper.
madz well, if he said something they connected with, they have every right to praise him. And praising one doesn’t mean looking down on everyone else