{"id":12338,"date":"2008-11-15T08:30:51","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T08:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wordswarm.net\/dictionary\/supererogatory.html"},"modified":"2008-11-15T08:30:51","modified_gmt":"2008-11-15T08:30:51","slug":"supererogatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2008\/11\/15\/supererogatory.html","title":{"rendered":"Supererogatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"width\"><font face=\"arial,helvetica\">Performed to an extent not enjoined or not required by duty.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A teacher in high school had a grading system that we, at the time, thought was unique. It was not unique but it seems to have been unusual as I&#8217;ve never met anyone who encountered this grading technique in their school years.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of the clumsy sounding &quot;supererogatory&quot; (which has a strangely sexual sound to it) our teacher handed out the coveted &quot;ABCD.&quot; &quot;ABCD&quot; stands for &quot;Above and Beyond the Call of Duty&quot; and was a grade that rose above A+. This teacher used this grade sparingly, as I recall, though I seem to remember landing an ABCD quite a few times.<\/p>\n<p>One could not, unfortunately, get an &quot;ABCD&quot; grade on a final report card, though it might have been entertaining to explain such a grade to college admissions boards.<\/p>\n<p>I was somewhat ambivalent about this grade. Despite what it stood for I felt that those 4 letters in a row suggested that my work comprised all grades from A to D, and was thus uneven or mediocre: &quot;A careless mix of insight and carelessness,&quot; as a college professor once memorably wrote on an essay of mine. Somehow&nbsp; a grade ending in a D didn&#8217;t sound so great to me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Performed to an extent not enjoined or not required by duty. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whats-the-word","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-3d0","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}