June 17, 2007
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Poor Grades
If you received poor grades in school, would you rather the reason be because you had a learning disability or that you were just lazy?
If you received poor grades in school, would you rather the reason be because you had a learning disability or that you were just lazy?
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Lazy.
That was the real reason behind my bad grades early in life after all.
Or just a bad day.
Lazy is better, all you need to do is get off your ass.
I don’t feel like thinking of a good answer to that..
lazy
I’d rather have the learning disability. Both have solutions, but people look down on you for being lazy.
I bet some day they’ll label “laziness” as an actual learning disorder anyway. Then, it’s nobody’s fault!
Being lazy is curable for free
Either way I would have been in big trouble.
lazy.
i dont see why anyone would want a learning disability…
I don’t make bad grades, but I’d rather have just been lazy than have a learning disability.
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Lazy because I know that I have the ability to do better.
Lazy…but then again, I almost didn’t write this cause it was too much work.
haha, it’s okay. It’s not like I comment on every single one of your posts either.
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Lazy.
I agree. Lazier is cheaper and easier to fix.
No one should wish to have a disability, that’s lazier than being lazy. Sadly once you get older you can convince your doctor you have a disability to get notes to bring to work with you so you can be lazy at work and not get in trouble. *sigh*
Lazy…
Wasn’t it suspected that Einstein had a learning disability?
I’m pretty sure it was because I was lazy, and that’s acceptable.
lazy…
LD for sure, because I have one and it can be compensated for. Lazy people are just lazy and that’s a bad character trait. RYC: How much for the kids? Oh that’s right you were just kidding.
Sadly, I did have a learning disability, but no one found that out till I was a SENIOR in H.S. My entire life, up to that point, I had to listen to teachers tell my grandparents that I just wasn’t “applying” myself or that I was lazy! If wasn’t for a counselor who actually cared and took an interest in me, I would have gone through the rest of my school, days and maybe even my life thinking I was a first class dummy.
Even after over a week of testing and a final diagnosis, it took forever to retrain my grandma into understanding I really DID have a learning disorder and that it wasn’t because I wasn’t applying myself or that I was lazy.
Once I was diagnosed (can’t remember what they called it, some big fancy word), I was placed in Special Ed classes. From there, a wonderful teacher spent countless hours after school with me helping me get caught up. I eventually went from being a D-F student, to an A & B student.
I would much rather be told I had a learning disorder than lazy. Matter fact, if your child “appears” to be lazy, have them checked, chances are, like me, they may very well really have a learning disorder!
i did get bad grades in school, my learning dissability was laziness…. oh, and apathy.
I’d rather be lazy than mentally disabled.
It was because I was lazy. Actually I was bored >buffs nails disinterestedly<. When I started being able to take electives in HS I got interested, and busy.
lazy.
besides, having a learning disability shouldn’t be an excuse. There are teachers out there that can help you and ways to learn. People with learning disabilities can get good grades.
Intelligence is a privilege, not a gift.
I was lazy, and got shit grades.
Because someone told me I was special, and I deserved lots of hugs and cookies.
I’d prefer to face down laziness, I think. It sounds easier to overcome. But I don’t really know.
Learning disabled people are NOT FREAKING MENTALLY DISABLED. IF I see one more person refer to a learning disability as being mentally disabled I’m liable to go postal.
No one should ever wish to have a learning disability
Hmm… Well, I have slight learning disbility. But I also can be lazy when it comes to school work. So when I put the two together I can do horrible in school. However, when I actually attempt at trying (even though it takes all that’s in me, haha.) I don’t do that bad. So I don’t really know what to choose…
I dunno. Some learning disabilities can be corrected and worked around, and some aren’t. Laziness can be something that you overcome, or you can let it define you. I guess my answer is that I’d just rather not get poor grades (or in my case, do poor work).
Lazy. You can fix lazy, not the latter.
I rather it be because I was sick, or taking too many credits…
Well, I’m already lazy and only getting B’s, so I’d say lazy.. xD
sick as in “have to stay in the hospital for too long.”*
Got too big of a hurry.
Disability and yes I did write the sonnet. I’m glad you enjoyed it.
I was lazy.
I attribute my bad grades in High school to just plain lazyness, now in college, some lazyness, and a block of math. But I don’t have any learning disabilities so yeah you get it.
I was classified as lazy, i suppose it’s ok. Really i think i would have done better without all the lectures and students. I loved it the one time i had timeout (or whatever they call it) and i had nothing but a list of what needed to be done and lots of quiet.
i’d rather not have the problem personally, but i’d rather just be lazy. the problem is when lazy people get diagnosed with disabilities that aren’t there.
I have two sons – one with a learning disability, who struggled despite lots of help – every halfway decent grade was a cause for rejoicing. The younger son is brilliant, but has been extremely lazy and disorganized this year, and his grades have been horrible. He has absolutely no excuse. Guess which one I am upset with? The lazy one, who will be going to college, but won’t get into the college of his choice because of his GPA. His ACT score is very high – he has the capability. The older one will never be able to succeed in college, much less get into one. He has tried that road – twice. The younger one has the gifts, but isn’t using them.
I’d rather have a learning disability and try my best than be lazy and not use my God-given abilities.
If I were lazy I would not care to begin with. And Lazy People usually like the idea, that they could _____ if they really wanted to.
No body wants a learning dissability,
Lazy. It hurts more knowing that you can try so hard and still be unable to get the grades you want.
learning disability.
lazy. hands down.
learning disability
I would prefer lazy. I believe that many of the people we diagnose with learning disabilities are really just lazy.
In school, in some subjects, I was just plain lazy. After graduation, I actually studied more and felt that I took in more information. I guess it came down to the desire to know on my own – not having someone force it on me.
Lazy. Mainly because that’s exactly why I haven’t done better in school. I well enough, however.
Laziness
I am both.
Laziness and unmotivated.
I’d rather be lazy.
Learining Disability, I really am serious with my grades, I try my best in School!
lazy…because I can at least change that.
well after i think of it…it moght be hard for someone to have a learning disability but i wouldn’t want to be lazy, both of them really aren’t for me…its would be easier to stop being lazy then to stop having a learning disability!!
laziness, i can change it!
lazy. you can always change being lazy, you can’t change a disability
behind my experience, it’s lazy. My brother’s shrink thinks I have ADD since I can’t sit still in my seat or just tend to wander off or get easily distracted.
Psh, my classes are boring. I have a perfect reason to space out! Hahaha.
i thought laziness was a learning disability…
Lazy, at least then i know that if i work hard i will get my grades up !
Lazy.. well, i am anyways.
Lazy. At least I admit that, unlike those pussy parents who claim their kids have ADD. Of course, there’s learning disorders out there, but ADD is not one of them.
lazy,because, at that point in my life i could actually fix my lazyness!
i couldnt fix something like retardation!!
Well I was lazy and got poor grades in some subjects so I guess it doesn’t matter too much to me.
lazy, because I could still learn
I got bad grades because I didn’t understand the subject, or had a difficult time with it. I’ve never gotten a bad grade because I was lazy.
Disability.
I AM lazy.
And it sucks.
Because I’m SO lazy, I feel like it IS a disability that I can’t control.
Wait.
Wait….
Uhm.
lazy
I will admit being lazy. My GPA has plunged this semester.
Of course lazy!
NONE. My teacher hates me, is my excuse.
a disability.. it makes you wanted it more
Lazy. It’s why my grades are bad. I’d rather say though that I live life to the fullest, and school is just a small part of that and can’t become too much of a worry. I like being happy more than making good grades. As long as I graduate with a 3.0, I’m satisfied.
Probably lazy, so it’s within my own control.
Learning disability certainly – I’d much rather get what I get striving and giving my all… the results of laziness always feel really cheap.
LAZY… I couldn’t stand not being intelligent enough to do/learn something if I had to, or if it was really interesting to me.
Lazy. Then I can always try harder and know I can do better.
I was so smart that I became very lazy. Eventually, I begged my parents to homeschool me and I ended up in college level studies when I graduated highschool. Granted, math is my nemesis. However, I’ve always been very book smart. I’m a guarenteed nerd.
lazy…
Learning disability.
I received a C grade average in High School. However, I have an excuse. I was battling Major Depression, caused by a bad back. That is another thing to watch out for in teenagers. Of course, teenagers will have extreme range of emotions … I mean, they’re teenagers!
who really wishes for a learning disability?! thats just ridiculous.
Lazy.. I wouldnt want to have any disabilities
I was in one of the more difficult classes for my (MOS if you must, we called it AFSC) when I was in the USAF – the Defense Imagery Application & Training Program. This was a 4-month course that only the best & brightest had an opportunity to attend, and usually after many years on the job. I went after one. (I say this not to brag, but to set it up, you understand.) I was the lowest ranking individual there.Having come from a real-world tactical environment with a good comprehension of the diverse material, I spent my afternoons instead working on my 1968 Dodge Coronet 440.This didn’t go unnoticed.I was considered somewhat of a prodigy, I suppose, after the bitterness of my presence wore off.The final comprehensive test came, and the next day, the Army Staff Sergent and his cronies next to me inquired as to my score. I had rec’d an 88%. They were flabbergasted that they had outscored me! They each rec’d in the mid 90% range.”We thought you were smart or something.” They chided me.”It took me 45 minutes to take the test,” I explained. “It took you 4 hours. I’ll take my 88%.”
I just heard an ad with something like this on the radio yesterday….I’d rather be lazy.
I was lazy as hell. lol I made up for it in college though!
I would rather my poor grades be blamed on laziness, because thats what it actually was in school. I never believed for a second that I had the learning disability my counselors diagnosed me with. In fact, I did worse just to spite them.
Being diagnosed with a learning disability would absolve at least SOME of my responsibilities, because my bad grades wouldn’t be ALL my fault. Then I could mope about and have an excuse for my grades.
But if I was diagnosed with laziness, it would give more hope about myself, because then I would know that I at least have to potential to improve, if I were to be motivated enough to want to improve.
I’d rather it be lazy, because I’d have something to tell my mom. If I had tried I would have done better, but what is done is done! We move on.
A dissability can’t be “done”, you have to live with it forever.
Lazy
lazy because you can control that, you can’t always control your learning disability
lazy.
Lazy.
Sometimes I wish I were diagnosed with one so I had something to blame other than myself.
Lazy.
learning disability.
Lazy. But, there are much more other reason out there just that two. I would never have fallen in either of them.
being lazy is easier to remedy…
lazy – then at least I’d know I could fix it if I wanted to
Lazy. I’d rather have a choice. But not everyone wants to have a choice in their competence.
i’d prefer lazy…cause it means you’re capable without a problem, but you just don’t feel like it.
Kindergarten to second grade was hard. Philippines was awfully advanced (simple long division in second grade). But when I moved to America, I got really good grades. Four point zeros ever since fourth grade.
lazy
lazy
lazy
Lazy.
A million times easier to overcome.