My Ballad - You say no.

Er yeah, because I got a D in Geometry and it went on my transcript Freshman year, I guess I ruined every chance I had getting into a good college, as told by teachers, friends, and family.

That's curious. In Washington State, there's a state-wide examination test in lines with "No Child Left Behind", called the WASL. At one point, they made it a graduation requirement to pass all the subject tests, and to everyone's horror when the results were published, a good 38% of total students were failing math. Holy pomegranate.