Honor roll

PROTIP: It has so far unknown whether or not Chris really did make the honor roll. China and/or pickles and a place in the Trolling Hall of Fame awaits anyone who can conclusively prove or disprove Chris's honor roll status.

The white sash says Chris made the honor roll, but the slack-jawed stare says so much more.

“	No solamente con ellos, pero con mis puntos de HONOR ROLL. ¡Bueño! [sic]	”
Ricardo Weston Chandler

“	I AM HONOR ROLL!	”
Liquid Chris

“	HONOR ROLL MY ASS	”
Vivian Gee, Audiobooks

Chris's presence on the honor roll in high school is something he often brings up as evidence of his intelligence. Despite his insistence to the contrary, Chris's past behavior and obvious gullibility, poor communication and self-delusion cast doubt upon this claim. Chris likes to boast of his honor roll status wherever possible, due to it being the closest thing in his life to an actual accomplishment.

Where Chris has claimed Honor Roll status

Chris has trumpeted his honor-roll status in a number of his documents and videos.

• In Sub-Episode 2, Chris drops the honor-roll line in a post-script to his unsolicited follow-up email to Hanna. Because the girl who just deliberately trolled your heart level down to 15% will flip for you if you're on the honor roll.
• In his e-mails to Shigeru Miyamoto, he apparently thought making the honor roll would impress a world-renowned game designer.
• Likewise, he mentioned the honor roll early in his e-mail exchanges with Blanca.
• The honor roll gets a shout-out in the lyrics to "A-U-T-I-S-M" by Christian and the Hedgehog Boys.
• Chris's Wikipedia autobiography prominently mentioned the honor roll.
• In his Asperger's rant, Chris cited making the honor roll as one of many ways in which he overcame the obstacles presented by his autism, and how he is apparently better than those with Aspergers.
• In his first public plea for understanding on YouTube, Chris mentioned the honor roll in passing.
• Chris's first OkCupid profile from February 2009 announces that he made the honor roll.
• In CWC Update 29 July 2009, Chris bragged about his "honor roll points" as one of the many qualities that apparently set him apart from Liquid Chris.
• In response, Liquid Chris picked up the honor-roll catchphrase himself, using it in one of their arguments over the phone.
• In the Autism Awareness E-mails, Chris mentioned making the honor roll as one reason why he did not need a caretaker or other supervision.

Chris made the honor roll?

In Chris's graduation pictures from both high school and college, he is wearing a sash that generally indicates graduating with honors. This only means so much without additional context, though. As of the 2013-14 school year, being listed on the Honor Roll for a given semester only requires a 3.0 grade point average, with no distinction made between harder classes and easier remedial course work (such as the English 12 class where Chris claims How the Pokémon Came into Our PokéBalls got an A). The psychiatrist who conducted Chris's intake survey in 2004 noted that Chris took regular classes in high school, but he may have only had Chris's word for that. Often, even without remedial course work, it's not hard to get honor roll -- assuming 3.0 was B or B-, having had enough help from his parents with homework might have made up for a C average on tests. In the first semester of 2013-14, 789 students made either the Honor Roll or the more prestigious Distinguished Honor Roll, about 40% of the total enrolment of about 1800-2000. This may explain why Chris was so upset at being awarded only a star pin for his grades.

On the other hand, it's not completely out of the question to consider that Chris might have been able to get decent grades in school, even in harder courses. His emotional and social issues have always made judging his actual intelligence a little tricky. In "Song of Christian", he is enraged to receive an "F" in English, suggesting that he usually got good grades, and also rages: "I mean, I started off with an "A" and you just lowered it, lowered, lowered it!", indicating that he initially made good grades in the class, but for one reason or another, they slipped into "F"'s before long.

Chris's basic cognitive functions work fine, as the 2004 psychiatric survey confirmed, and in some respects he seems to be no less intellectually capable than many ordinary people. He has a reasonable facility with computers and technology, for instance. At the same time, his laziness, naïveté, egotism, temperament and raging hormones have obviously led him to ever-increasing depths of self-destructively foolish behavior. The Miyamoto saga offers an interesting example of this contrast: Chris was bright enough to eventually work out that the e-mails he received from "Miyamoto" came from an easily-spoofed domain... but then if he weren't so blinded by his ego, he would never have believed that Nintendo was interested in his shitty knockoff character in the first place.

So, is Chris too stupid to have made the honor roll? Maybe. Is Chris too gullible, arrogant, and led about by his duck to function in real life? Definitely.

One would think that all Chris needs to do is to post his grades in order to end the doubts to his alleged intelligence. Sadly, according to Mailbag 19, Chris's report card papers are said to be locked away beyond his reach (which could mean a number of things - they could be locked away, buried under the piles of shit that litter his house, he doesn't have them anymore and he doesn't want to reveal that to others, or he's just too lazy to get up and find them), we may never know the truth until something finally snaps and he's able to get them. On the other hand, he's probably had them all along, and would never reveal them because they prove that he's the dumbfuck we know him to be.

Chris also claims that the grades testifying to honor roll status are a matter of public record (although the school district website states otherwise), but was too lazy to procure them himself. Those who have (or desire) access to the Chesterfield County Public Schools hall of records should take note.

It is noteworthy that Chris' father stated in a Prank Call that Chris did not, in fact, make the Honor Roll. It is possible that Bob was either mistaken, lying or progressing into senility.

See also

• Manchester High School
• Slow-in-the-minds
• Piedmont Virginia Community College