Mshambabroad: Why a ‘C- ‘ is the best High school Grade.

Mshambabroad: Why a ‘C-  ‘   is the best High school Grade.

Completing High school in my own opinion comes with a ‘one time’ episode of spring: at last you’re free, you wake up at your own time and that you do not need to deal with structured life. In a single blink, all will disappear into the thin air, your harvest will soon be a round the corner, and the harsh reality will be checking into your sense, sleeplessness will kick in and begging for what’s next in life. What is next is solemnly determined by who is aware of his fate and who is ready to hit the road on self-reliance. In a few lines I will, in my own personal analysis express the restructuring of a society through grades. You will in fact understand why ‘C-‘makes a life of less hustling or successful rich people. Be cautioned that I do not speak about the outliers or those who lie in the extreme ends of the graph.

Irrespective of school or place ,a C- is a grade of average people and it is consistent  from all forms no matter how hard you work. These are the group of persons that require less time  to think about whether they passed or failed, in fact they have more time to choose what they really want : farmers, mechanics, hawkers, shopkeepers. They do not rely on an external force to remind them of what careers to pursue. Consider an A or A- persons, without the experience of a parent/sibling, this group makes majority of the hopeless persons. They rely on the government to program them to do what is based on grades. They spend time on social media because they think a grade is an automatic qualifier of success, this is  a justification of why a village mechanic is more intelligent than a graduate of mechanical Engineering, why  a student of Polytechnic is more qualified to pull electricity than a graduate in Electrical Engineering. FYI, there are more rich C’ persons than A if justified means of acquisition is factored and that majority of the corrupt belongs to the frustrated A’s, B’s and E’s. You might ask why and E may fall into the same category, it simply because of the extreme guiltiness and condemnation as a failed person and that they will never be good at anything. If in doubt ask why Koinange Street belongs to smart students? It is hopelessness and inability to do what is best for self, if this condition is mixed with pride which most of them attached with grades it becomes a good recipe for an immoral society.

There are more evidences to justify this piece, perhaps it is the nature of humans to praise that which they do and call it ‘I like it’ ill-heartedly, perhaps if an open mind is led to wonder you will wake up to the reality. You will be able to see that a C+ and B- is also another group that waits for something to push them high, because they feel as though they should have studied a little more. They blame themselves over a party they attended and others keep a second try on high school. Those who have exhausted their only bullet and are unable to pay for college will dive for hate of society and will settle for the un ending guiltiness blaming everything that comes their way. Who wants to attend TTC or river –road colleges when they were a stone throw from University and HELB.

Life might turn ugly if mainstream structures are the only means to define what individuals are good at. Be warn that this is not a call for a deliberate C-, this should be a caution to those capable of falling in the Extremes and that passing  without purpose and desire might send you into to the tubes of despair and agony. Working hard is not optional but What are you working hard ‘for’ makes a great difference (Teleological conception).