Are there any known associations, whether good or bad, of school grade lettering (e.g. A, B, C, D, F for Americans) affecting how literature is written?

It came as a shower-thought to me today that some people might have a disdain for the letter F considering it is the worst possible grade to receive in academia.

A source I came across states this:

"The earliest record of a letter-grade system comes from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts in 1897. (There is a passing reference in the Harvard archives to a student receiving a B grade in 1883, but no evidence of a complete A-through-F system.) The lowest grade at Mount Holyoke was an E, which represented failure. The rest of the scale was a bit irregular, with A representing scores between 95 and 100, while B and C each stood for 10-point ranges. Students could get a D only with a score of precisely 75, with anything below that receiving the dreaded E. One year later, administrators changed the failing grade to F and tweaked the other letters. The new scale offered better symmetry, since each grade represented five points, with scores below 75 resulting in failure. (The E was promoted to cover scores from 75 to 79.) Over the next two decades, variations on the letter-grade system spread across the country and into primary and secondary schools. It's hard to put a date on the end of the E, but it was gone from most colleges by 1930. Apparently, some professors worried that students would think the grade stood for "excellent," since F stood for "failure.""

So, what I'm asking: Is there an association between when these letter-grades came about and any changes in literature due to the letters now being seen as "good" or "bad?" I feel like this question may be a bit too esoteric, but please share anything you may know!