An as-yet-to-be-authenticated, high school transcript of Sarah Palin's was posted on Gawker Thursday, and it's a doozy. The report shows Palin's GPA for that grading period as a 2.2, her lowest score being a D in Foreign Language class (which seems a bit too on-the-nose). It also says that she earned 3 C's and 2 B's.
The real shocker is her SAT score, also listed in the report. Apparently, Sarah Palin scored an 841 out of 1600 (the maximum of the old point-system). It goes without saying that if I had brought home that SAT score when I was a senior in high school, I would have been disowned. My mom would've painstakingly cut me out of each and every photo with her sewing scissors the way she did friends she was no longer speaking to. I would have become that circular void in photo albums, a hole in the Olan Mills family portrait, excised like cancer.
But, hey, that's just me, your average arugula-munching, Ivy League-attending, elitist American asshole, talkin'. And, I mean, compared to people who didn't have Hardass Asian Parents Psychotically Obsessed with Education, maybe Sarah Palin's sucky SAT score is A-OK. She is, after all, just an average American. She shouldn't be expected to have scored a 1590, like Bill Gates did. Or a 1355, like Al Gore, someone who actually held the position Palin is vying for. Or a 1206, like...President George W. Bush. Or even, say, a 1080, like Kobe Bryant. Am I right? (Click here to see other famous people's SAT scores. James Woods is an SAT genius, btw.)
Maybe it's even unreasonable to expect Sarah Palin's SAT score to be better than the national average--997 combined--in 1982, the time this alleged transcript was issued. In which case, cool. I can accept that. Because Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world, red and yellow, black and white, smart and dumb, et al., and I love Jesus. But if this below-average report card turns out to be real, is it too much to ask that Palin stop lying about being so "average"?
Let's see if it works this time.
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Of course, getting into Harvard or Yale or whatever Ivy League school one desires to attend has an aweful lot to do with connections and money as well as smarts. I wonder what the alma mater of these brillant business men just happen to be - any Ivy League takers?
I never have done well on standardized test, but I am more than capable of mastering the subject matter and belong to two honor societies, have a master's degree and several professional licenses. I didn't do well on the SAT or the GMAT or GBus boards. . .
Getting elected to office is not a matter of SAT smarts, but street smarts, political smarts, connections and campaign strategy well executed. On that account, Governor Palin is plenty smart and smart-alcey.
Go figure!
The Minnesota Multi-Phasic Personality Inventory {MMPI} doesn't attempt to assess the abnormal psychological tendencies of migrant ancestral pilgrims.
Linguistics experts will assess the reality that Sarah Palin speaks with an accent typical of Scandinavian immigrants between the First and Second World Wars who populed the city of Minneapolis and the northern territory of Minnesota.
Would emigrants from Minnesota to Alaska be considered migrant farm workers?
Could Palin's political views have to do with the fact that she attempting to distance herself from her family hisotry of poverty and migarant farm work?