Usually, a student might expect a teacher to grade his test using numbers or a percentage out of 100. Strangely, times are changing.

Now, if you fail a test, your teacher might give you a throw up emoji instead of a 0. If you ace a test, you might receive a smiling purple demon emoji.

Doing the same thing over and over can become stale, so the new superintendent has decided that teachers should stop using number grades and switch to emoji grades. She stated that number grades are too boring and report cards need more pizzazz.

While elementary teachers feel that the emoji grading systems make sense, middle and high school teachers think it is absurd.

Chad Diddle recently checked his grades on eschool and was confused to see a nerd emoji where his math grade should be. At first, he thought one of his friends were pranking him, until he asked his teacher and was told that his grade was the equivalent of an A plus.

“I think the new emoji system is great. It’s kind of hard to figure out what each emoji means but I think it’s a funny change,” said Chad Diddle, a junior.

When the change was first made, the school received a lot of calls from parents questioning the decision. Some parents thought it was a move in the right direction to help teachers keep up with the times, while others thought it was ridiculous and unprofessional.

Some parents disliked the change so much they started forming a riot outside of the district’s central administration building. They stood outside chanting “Emojis are for texting!” with pitchforks in their hands.

There are a lot of mixed emotions about this new grading policy. While we aren’t sure what additional changes might be coming, we do wonder what grade a dog emoji might indicate.