With just seven months to consequential midterm elections that will decide control of Congress and the ease with which President Donald Trump can pursue his agenda, we decided to ask you, our USA TODAY readers, to step into an unusual role: For our latest Forum feature, we invited you to take on the mantle of schoolteacher and grade the performance of Trump and members of his administration.

There was plenty of material for that assessment, with the administration having led us to war, away from vaccines and into a new tariff-based economic reality – all in just 15 months.

A surprisingly large number of you leaped at the challenge, dusting off your erasers, sharpening your pencils and opening up your grade books. And let's just say that judging by your responses, many of you would not have been the "popular" teacher.

While there were some glowing A's and middling C's, there was also a deluge of brutally low marks that would cow the cockiest 12th grader. Of the more than 700 of you who sent in grades through March 31, just 28 of you gave Trump an A or a B. About 40 of you gave the president a C or a D, while more than 500 of you gave him an F. (The remaining assessments were nearly all lower than F.)

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