I hope you realize there are some kids out there where their parents don’t settle for anything less than the best. That A- might seem good to you, but that kid could have a whole series of degrading comments and ‘you could have done better’ thrown at them at home.
It’s the way they were raised, anything less than perfect is a failure.

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Yeah, lemme tell you about the time I got 99% on an exam, and my father bellowed at me, “WHERE’S THE OTHER ONE PERCENT?????”. It broke my heart, and almost thirty years later, it STILL hurts.

You know what one of my most vivid memories of Year 7 science is? Throughout the year I’d gotten 96%, 98%, 99%, 99.6%, which was my teacher’s way of saying ‘I know you know your shit, but don’t slack off, I want to push you to be great’. Well FINALLY I got my prized 100%, and I packed it in my bag especially to show my grandpa.
You know what he says?
'So you ARE smart. Why couldn't you get this mark on all those other tests then?'
The next year I had such high expectations on me, when I got 80% I was shattered.

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When I got my first B my dad asked me if I needed to go to therapy. He thought mental illness was the only way that I could ever get an 89% in a class. And he isn’t even strict. Now that I have gotten a few more B’s he doesn’t even really talk to me about college or my future anymore.