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Grognard:
sadly, the "average" American high school graduate has ,what most other 1st and 2nd world countries would consider, a 9th grade education. In some cases, "graduates" have 6th grade reading, writing and arithmetic skills.
...makes me sick.
MY children, however, are required to be in the top 5% of their class.
Otherwise, I will restrict them from all other non-academic activities.
GarandMarine:
I don't need me no learnin!
nekowafer:
I am really amazingly terrible at math. I just barely passed geometry, and that was as high as my math education went.
Papersatan:
--- Quote from: Grognard on 20 Aug 2014, 20:29 ---
MY children, however, are required to be in the top 5% of their class.
Otherwise, I will restrict them from all other non-academic activities.
--- End quote ---
Does their school actually publish class rankings?
That's so weird to me. I know I come from a very different academic background (my school didn't actually have grades) but it just seems like that is asking for students to view each other as competition and to overvalue grades over actual learning.
GarandMarine:
Competition is healthy, having a metric to know where you stand amongst your peers and how you're performing is important I think.
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