If you want a counter example (because lord knows the singular of anecdote is data ;)), I was basically a straight A student in elementary school. I dropped ou

If you want a counter example (because lord knows the singular of anecdote is data ;)), I was basically a straight A student in elementary school. I dropped out of my high school half way through my sophomore year, and though I've never looked at my final report card (by that point I'd decided I couldn't care less what my grades said) I'm pretty sure I failed at least two classes. The difference? I went to a really great elementary school and had teachers who were mostly concerned with learning to think, and not how much work I could churn out. In high school I honestly wouldn't have been surprised if there was a quota on how much a student's output needed to weigh.