What is the purpose of grades?

My parents are the complete opposite...
They evaluate my learning based on my grades. So basically, all they care about is grades.

Also, with the whole balancing out your life idea (academics, sports, social life, and spiritual life), my parents are not too fond of that idea either. It's either school or tennis. This is all my parents basically care about.

The thing is, my parents don't understand that learning is more important than what grade you get. They believe that getting into a good college is the ultimate goal based on the grades one gets. I mean don't get me wrong, everyone wants to get into a good college, but along the way to achieving it, the students should learn instead of worrying about grades nonstop.

So, feel free to try to convince my parents that grades aren't everything. I highly doubt that they will ever change their minds about grades.

Science and Politics

I don't have a clue about what to write because I am not familiar on this topic, and this is such a broad topic. Well anyways, I'm going to write ideas that I think of when it comes down to science and politics.

Okay well onto the basics...
Obviously the government affects science by funding for research or vice versa. Some examples that are widely known about when it's about science and politics are global warming and stem cell research.

People have been arguing about stem cell research for a long time. Others disapprove while others want to keep on researching about it. Personally, I think that the scientists should keep on researching because ending it without finding the answer would be a waste of money and time spent.

The other widely know topic is global warming. It starts to scare people when there is a dramatic change in weather that isn't supposed to happen. People are funding to research more about global warming and how to reduce it. Also, the gov. has been trying to keep the environment with less pollution as possible.

And this is all I have to say about the topic, science and politics.