E for Effort (1940)

[Benjamin Barrett]

That makes sense and explains my confusion over the "E" usage. I went to
school in four different school districts, and it seemed there was a
gradual change going on from an A, B, C, D, F to an A-E scale. BB
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at EARTHLINK.NET>
>Date: Tuesday, May 4, 2004 11:20 am
>Subject: Re: E for Effort (1940)
>
>> Oops! I forgot to state that, in my experience, "E for effort" was
>> onlya sarcastic saying by teachers ("Well, I guess I can give you E
>> for effort," said with a sneer) and not an actual grade. All actual
>> grades were, in my experience, numerical - 100, 99, 98, 97, ... 0 -
>> through high school (graduated May 8, 1954, in Saint Louis). Only at
>> the college level were letter grades, A, B, C, D, F (with "+" or "-"
>> added when relevant) used. These letter grades each had a numerical
>> value, but it was not fixed, in those days. The values could
>be 5, 4,
>> 3, 2, 1
>> or 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, varying by institution, before the latter version
>> become standard across the country.