actually that's just a offhand joke, my high school guidance counsellor was a very nice lady. she gave me some really good advice once, she said, i'm paraphrasing heavily here:
you're feeling a lot of stress over your grades and your performance but let me tell you a secret - you can go to community college, and transfer out to a four year school after, and do just fine. you can live a good life without living up to other people's expectations. after you have your associates degree, nobody will care about your high school GPA ever again.
and she was 100% correct.